Examining modularity via partial correlations: A rejoinder to a comment by Paul Magwene

Systematic Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 346-348

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a,b   Bookstein, Fred L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 71549156886     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp040     Document Type: Article

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