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Table 2 Methods for assigning accelerometer waveforms to behavioral categories based on waveform statistics

From: Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

Method

Representative source(s)

Manual

  
 

Reference patterning

[34, 98, 108, 127, 171]

 

Fixed-threshold

[31, 57, 83, 161]

Unsupervised machine learning algorithms

 
 

Cluster analysis

[164]

Supervised machine learning algorithms

 
 

Classification and regression trees

[24, 77, 172]

 

Random forests

[55]

 

Linear or quadratic discriminant analysis

[55, 132, 149]

 

Logistic regression

[55, 148]

 

Support vector machines

[162, 172]

 

Artificial neural networks

[55, 172]