Interpreting the evolutionary regression: The interplay between observational and biological errors in phylogenetic comparative studies

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 413-425

  Hansen, Thomas F ^a   Bartoszek, Krzysztof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; allometry; major axis regression; measurement error; phylogenetic comparative method; phylogenetic inertia; reduced major axis regression; structural equation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859443677     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr122     Document Type: Article

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