Quasireplication and the contract of error: Lessons from sex ratios, heritabilities and fluctuating asymmetry

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 31, Issue , 2000, Pages 441-480

  Palmer, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Funnel graph; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Replication; Research synthesis; Selective reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034496729     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.441     Document Type: Article

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