Benefits
Participants will learn how to use the advanced reliability analysis tools of The Observer 4.1. They can request particular topics (by e-mail) in advance or during the meeting.

Features
The tutorial will be structured around two central themes:

• How to get the reliability analysis results that I need?
• How to draw conclusions from the reliability analysis results I get?

• What kind of questions can the reliability analysis tools answer?
• How to choose the right basis for comparison between two observations?
• What to do if observations under comparison are not started or ended at the same time?
• How to interpret values of different reliability analysis measures? When to use which reliability measures?
• How can the confusion matrix be of help?
• Where to look for in the pairwise comparison of behavioral records?

Audience
This tutorial is intended for novice or experienced users of The Observer. Basic understanding of observational research is required.

Presentation
PowerPoint presentation, demonstration and discussion.

Instructor resume
Roland Jansen is a System Analyst at Noldus Information Technology. He obtained an MSc degree from Wageningen Agricultural University in Animal Husbandry, with a major in Ethology. In his current position he specializes in design of software for data analysis and statistics. He designed the reliability analysis for The Observer 4.1.

Sign up
To sign up for this tutorial, please send an email to Roland Jansen. Feel free to ask questions in advance, thus allowing the instructor to tailor the content of the tutorial to the interest of the participants.