Poor statistical performance of the mantel test in phylogenetic comparative analyses

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2173-2178

  Harmon, Luke J ^a   Glor, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative methods; Independent contrasts; Phylogenetic signal; Statistical power; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 78149409895     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00973.x     Document Type: Article

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