Discriminant function analysis with nonindependent data: consequences and an alternative

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 965-976

  Mundry, Roger ^a,b   Sommer, Christina ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

discriminant function analysis; multivariate statistics; nonindependent data; permutation test; pseudoreplication; replicates

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; CALLING BEHAVIOR; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 35148832955     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.028     Document Type: Article

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