Controlling for non-independence in comparative analysis of patterns across populations within species

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1569, 2011, Pages 1410-1424

  Stone, Graham N ^a   Nee, Sean ^a   Felsenstein, Joseph ^b  

^a Institute of Evolutionary Biology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregression; Comparative method; Contrasts; Generalized least squares; Intraspecific

Indexed keywords

COMMON ANCESTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953751483     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0311     Document Type: Review

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