Comparative Analysis of Principal Components Can be Misleading

Systematic Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 677-689

  Uyeda, Josef C ^a   Caetano, Daniel S ^a   Pennell, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; early burst; multivariate evolution; Ornstein Uhlenbeck; phylogenetic comparative methods; principal components analysis; quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CAT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CATS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937034669     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv019     Document Type: Article

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