Interpretation of the results of common principal components analyses

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 433-440

  Houle, David ^a,b   Mezey, Jason ^b   Galpern, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common principal components analysis; Flury hierarchy; Matrix comparisons; Variance covariance matrix

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036221655     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01356.x     Document Type: Article

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