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Ben Kawam

German Primate CenterORCID 0009-0006-5779-1423Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Approach:Bayesian inference· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Daniel RedheadiD· 2 shared Julia OstneriD· 2 shared Oliver SchülkeiD· 2 shared Richard L. McElreathiD· 2 shared

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Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintNov 8, 2025

Inferring the causes of animal social network structure from time-series data

Ben Kawam, Richard L. McElreath, Julia Ostner…·Oliver Schülke

This paper introduces a causal Bayesian framework to infer the causes of animal social network structure from continuous-time focal-animal sampling data.

2 citations

non-human primateBayesian inference

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Animal Behavior & CognitionPLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewedSep 8, 2025

A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure

Ben Kawam, Julia Ostner, Richard L. McElreath…·Daniel Redhead

The paper introduces a Bayesian causal framework to infer the drivers of animal social network structure by modeling causal effects of individual, dyad, and group-level features on social interactions.

12 citations

statistical modelhost-pathogen & immune response

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