Alternatives to the partial Mantel test in the study of environmental factors shaping human morphological variation

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 698-703

  Perez, S Ivan ^a   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^b   Bernal, Valeria ^a   Gonzalez, Paula N ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Partial Mantel correlation; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial regression techniques

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MORPHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78149414620     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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