The Mantel test versus Pearson's correlation analysis: Assessment of the differences for biological and environmental studies

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-150

  Dutilleul, Pierre ^a,b   Stockwell, Jason D ^c   Frigon, Dominic ^d   Legendre, Pierre ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivariate distributions; Correlation analysis with raw data; Mantel test with proximity matrices; Parametric and permutational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000685164     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400528     Document Type: Article

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