# Dependent Variables in Detail

Main topics and tasks

▪Activity and Activity and Movement

▪Zones and Exploration

▪Orientation

▪Social

▪Behavior Recognition

▪Manually scored behavior

▪Hardware and Advanced

▪Live Mouse Tracker

Notes

▪You can use dependent variables:

▪In Trial Control. For example to start tracking when a specific behavior or event occurs.

▪In the Data profile. For example, to select the intervals when the subject was moving.

▪In the Analysis profile. For example, to calculate statistics of distance, velocity or specific behaviors.

▪Some dependent variables are only available if you have one of the add-on modules installed: Trial and Hardware Control, Social Interaction, Rat/Mouse Behavior Recognition and Live Mouse Tracker.

▪If none of the dependent variables cannot help quantify behavior of your subjects, please contact Noldus, so we can discuss your analysis requirements.