Wombsoft: An r package that implements the Wombling method to identify genetic boundary

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 588-591

  Crida, A ^a   Manel, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Binomial test; Boundary; Local polynomial regression; Wombling

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447118228     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: 14718286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01753.x     Document Type: Article

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