{"schemaVersion":"1.1.0","slug":"tool-rotarod-test-analyzer","identifier":"csdata:tool-rotarod-test-analyzer:1.0.0","title":"ConductScience Rotarod Test Analyzer: method and validation record","shortDescription":"The calculation behind ConductScience's free rotarod test analyzer, with five worked examples that check it.","description":"Method and validation record for the free Rotarod Test Analyzer at conductscience.com/tools/rotarod-test-analyzer. From latencies to fall, the tool computes daily means and learning curves, the rod speed at fall on an accelerating rod (per trial, then averaged), the area under each animal's learning curve (AUC) and each animal's longest latency. Five hand-worked examples, on the accelerating rod described by Deacon (2013), cover the speed at a fall mid-ramp, a daily mean from two trials with one past the ramp, a three-day AUC, a single day of testing, which has no AUC, and an uploaded latency above the trial cutoff. The record holds the calculation source files, the worked examples, a validation report with each file's SHA-256, and what changed on the tool page when the record was written.","creators":[{"name":"ConductScience","type":"Organization"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-28","updatedAt":"2026-09-28","version":"1.0.0","doi":"10.55157/csd.tool.rotarod.2026.001","doiProvider":"Crossref","doiRegisteredAt":"2026-09-28T13:42:32Z","doiRegisteredLocalDate":"2026-09-28","doiRegistrationTimeZone":"America/New_York","doiVerifiedAt":"2026-09-28T14:13:27Z","access":"open","license":{"name":"MIT and CC BY 4.0"},"licenseLabel":"MIT (code); CC BY 4.0 (text, worked examples and reports)","rightsStatement":"The calculation source files in engine/ are released under the MIT License. The record text, worked examples and validation report are released under CC BY 4.0. Cite the record when you use the files.","subjects":["Research software","Method validation","Behavioral neuroscience","Motor coordination"],"methods":["Worked examples: each of the five cases gives its inputs, the expected outputs, the source and passage behind the expected answer, and the arithmetic. Expected answers are worked by hand from the published method, or from the tool's own rule where METHODS.md labels it a convention. Cases whose ids start with edge- test inputs at the limits of the method.","Check: each case was run in Node.js 24 through the tool's calculation source files, and every output was compared with its expected value, exactly or within the tolerance the case states. All five cases pass (validation-report.json), and ConductScience's test suite runs the same cases whenever the tool changes.","Fingerprint: the validation report gives the byte count and SHA-256 of each calculation file and of the files that ran the check, and engine/ holds those files, so anyone can rerun the cases and tell whether a later version of the calculation differs from this one."],"source":{"repository":"https://github.com/ConductScienceInc/csd-tool-rotarod-test-analyzer","tag":"v1.0.0","commit":"ea833f7a98c18041ad5da361efcd255648901d8b","releasedAt":"2026-09-28T13:13:04Z"},"basedOn":"https://conductscience.com/tools/rotarod-test-analyzer","manifest":{"files":14,"bytes":23127,"sha256":"fb780b5887428747217291edb40949821aefad13c491912a730d3e79043194b1"},"archive":{"entries":15,"bytes":13126,"sha256":"4bbeba72e5586530516238f83d2d946e5e156168ca8d75334921f1100cb0e430"},"files":[{"name":"tool-rotarod-test-analyzer-record-1.0.0.zip","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer-record-1.0.0.zip","mediaType":"application/zip","sizeBytes":13126,"sha256":"4bbeba72e5586530516238f83d2d946e5e156168ca8d75334921f1100cb0e430","description":"Complete frozen release: 14 source-manifest files plus MANIFEST.json."},{"name":"cases.csv","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/cases.csv","mediaType":"text/csv","sizeBytes":1732,"sha256":"35a16544253274c58b5aae7c0486a51be2aa1eaed69229d4db0a2f617388f15a","description":"The worked examples, one row each: what the case checks, the source of the expected answer, the expected outputs and whether the engine matched them."},{"name":"cases.json","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/cases.json","mediaType":"application/json","sizeBytes":4112,"sha256":"be36684882d9968c86d3064b1760cf26e6159477207c3fc184443b31db644f1c","description":"The worked examples in full: inputs, expected outputs, tolerances, source passage and the arithmetic behind each expected answer."},{"name":"validation-report.json","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/validation-report.json","mediaType":"application/json","sizeBytes":1852,"sha256":"c499341912bf04e3d5733ef269ff27f014b0d75015696ae3a9f5a4d6739199af","description":"The engine's output for every case, pass or fail, with the byte count and SHA-256 of each calculation and harness file."},{"name":"data_dictionary.csv","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/data_dictionary.csv","mediaType":"text/csv","sizeBytes":472,"sha256":"96b57ee5185ffcccc5397d98673c42bbc53ff77cc7f676fe5789ef04a7648090","description":"Columns of cases.csv."},{"name":"README.md","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/README.md","mediaType":"text/markdown","sizeBytes":1693,"sha256":"5d3937a10659eaf38832ec8120a65766848905f52ad74391903094eb283be870","description":"What the tool computes, the files, and how to cite the record."},{"name":"METHODS.md","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/METHODS.md","mediaType":"text/markdown","sizeBytes":2390,"sha256":"5132dbd4477cf2be4fd741fcd2759f5409b22b9820ee39417753c64a8af1b3c4","description":"Formulas, input rules, conventions, references and what changed on the tool page."},{"name":"MANIFEST.json","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/MANIFEST.json","mediaType":"application/json","sizeBytes":2192,"sha256":"fb780b5887428747217291edb40949821aefad13c491912a730d3e79043194b1","description":"Byte count and SHA-256 for every file in the source release."},{"name":"CITATION.cff","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/CITATION.cff","mediaType":"text/yaml","sizeBytes":407,"sha256":"78fe493060bb6f7619d803832d6d2d64a1d9f04b87236e97f27b3c598b9723ee","description":"Citation metadata."},{"name":"LICENSE","url":"/data/records/tool-rotarod-test-analyzer/1.0.0/LICENSE","mediaType":"text/plain","sizeBytes":1361,"sha256":"d2dca2297cc985f3577b9376fbf5a72231ac88be401776098486f6d1e8a4d87a","description":"MIT License for the calculation source files; 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