In search of the best methods for multivariate selection analysis

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1095-1109

  Morrissey, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colinearity; Informative priors; Natural selection; Projection pursuit regression; Regularized regression; Selection gradients; Tables of statistics

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84939201424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12259     Document Type: Article

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