Measures of inequality are not equal

American Naturalist

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 358-382

  Kokko, Hanna ^a,b   Mackenzie, Aulay ^c   Reynolds, John D ^d   Lindström, Jan ^a,b   Sutherland, William J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leks; Reproductive skew; Resource acquisition; Sampling error; Statistical power; Variance in fitness

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INEQUALITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032750975     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303235     Document Type: Article

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