J. D. A. Hart

The impact of kinship composition on social structure

This study investigates how kinship composition affects social structure in rhesus macaques but finds no significant difference, suggesting larger sample sizes or species comparisons may be needed.

Cost and benefits of being social: examining the influence of sociality on faecal parasites in free-ranging rhesus macaques

This study examines how social relationships affect parasitic infection risk in rhesus macaques, finding that affiliative partners reduce protozoa infection risk, while social status does not.

BISoN: A Bayesian Framework for Inference of Social Networks

BISoN provides a Bayesian framework to quantify uncertainty in social network edge weights and supports downstream analyses using observational data.

Common Permutation Methods in Animal Social Network Analysis Do Not Control for Non-independence

This paper shows that common permutation methods in social network analysis do not properly account for non-independence, suggesting parametric models may be more reliable.

Accuracy and Power Analysis of Social Networks Built From Count Data

The paper develops a method to estimate network correlation and power analysis for social networks built from count data, showing that network correlation impacts statistical power and providing an R package for implementation.