Designing experiments to maximize the power of detecting correlations

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 251-255

  Phillips, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Experimental design; Multiple comparisons; Power of test

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031902575     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb05158.x     Document Type: Article

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