title: Modelling memory in coal tits: an illustration of the EM algorithm.
abstract: Some species of birds are known to use memory to retrieve previously stored food. A series of experiments on one of those species, coal tits, investigated various aspects of such memory. For one particular experiment, a number of statistical models describing the memory were fitted. However, some of the data were unavoidably incomplete. The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm provides a means of incorporating the incomplete data into the fitting procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
authors.forename: I T
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Jolliffe
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Jolliffe
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D008568:Memory; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015233:Models, Statistical