Assessing the Goodness of Fit of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: A Meta-Analysis and Simulation Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Jhwueng, Dwueng Chwuan ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRAIT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC COMPARATIVE METHOD; PHYLOGENY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; META ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATASETS AS TOPIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84879525184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067001     Document Type: Article

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