Confounded correlations: A reply to Lifjeld et al. and Wagner et al.

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 241-244

  Kempenaers, Bart ^a,c   Sheldon, Ben C ^b  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KLIVV   (Austria)

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EID: 0001203163     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0607     Document Type: Article

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