Testing causal explanations in organismal biology: Causation, correlation and structural equation modelling

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 374-382

  Shipley, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032839236     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546455     Document Type: Article

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