SOCPROG programs: analysing animal social structures

By Hal Whitehead. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Sex and social networking: the influence of male presence on social structure of female shark groups (2010, methodology): “The best-fitting model for all arenas during social definition consisted of 2 levels of casual acquaintances: a3 3 exp(2a1 3 td) 1 a4 3 exp(2a2 3 td), where td represents time lag and a1, a2, a3, and a4 the exponential parameters of the model (Whitehead 2009).”
Cyclicity in the structure of female baboon social networks (2009, methodology): “(a) Following Whitehead (1995) and using his software (Socprog v. 2.3, available at http://whitelab. biology.dal.ca/index.html; see also Whitehead 2009), we generated the lagged association rate of all nearest-neighbor dyads within each season.”
Structural balance in the social networks of a wild mammal (2013, methodology): “The networks were constructed using SOCPROG 2.4 (Whitehead 2009) and UCINET 6.258 (Borgatti et al. 2002).”
A comparative network analysis of social style in macaques (2011, methodology): “The coefficient ranged from 0 to 1: the higher the modularity, the higher the division between different subgroups will be (Whitehead 2008, 2009).”
Home range size of adult Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in a coastal and estuarine system is habitat and sex-specific (2016, methodology): “We calculated the Half-Weight Index on the complete data set using SOCPROG 2.4 (Whitehead 2009).”
Social network correlates of food availability in an endangered population of killer whales, Orcinus orca (2012, neutral): “4 (Whitehead 2009).”
A rule-of-thumb based on social affiliation explains collective movements in desert baboons (2011, neutral): “4 (Whitehead 2009).”
Characteristics of a manta ray Manta alfredi population off Maui, Hawaii, and implications for management (2011, methodology): “All LIR estimates were calculated using the software SOCPROG 2.3 (Whitehead 2009).”
Animal social network inference and permutations for ecologists in R using asnipe (2013, methodology): “The need for specialized methods for analyses in this subject was rapidly addressed by statisticians and biologists, culminating in the package SOCPROG (Whitehead 2009) that provides routines for many complex analyses.”
Trends and perspectives on the use of animal social network analysis in behavioural ecology: a bibliometric approach (2019, positive): “While the two most highly cited articles in our database were the SOCPROG guide (Whitehead, 2009) and a seminal empirical social network article (Flack, Girvan, de Waal, & Krakauer, 2006), review articles were more highly cited than we may have expected based on their overall prevalence in the datab”
Association networks in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) (2009, methodology): “However, the application of analytical techniques aimed at uncovering unifying principles for the described societies has lagged behind the accumulation of data (Whitehead 2009).”
Dispersal, philopatry, and the role of fission‐fusion dynamics in bottlenose dolphins (2013, methodology): “We calculated half-weight coefficients of association (COAs) to measure the frequency at which two individuals associate using SOCPROG 2.4 (Whitehead 2009).”
Home range overlap, matrilineal and biparental kinship drive female associations in bottlenose dolphins (2010, methodology): “The standard deviation and the coefficient of variation of HWI, based on the observed distribution of HWI, were used as indication of the level of structurewithin the female social system (Whitehead 1999, 2009).”