Effective use of Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 183-189

  Puth, Marie Therese ^a   Neuhäuser, Markus ^a   Ruxton, Graeme D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association; Confidence internal; Null hypothesis testing; Regression; Spearman

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901822645     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.05.003     Document Type: Note

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