Are partial mantel tests adequate?
Partial Mantel tests were designed to test for correlation among three matrices of pairwise distances. We show through an example that these tests may be inadequate, because the associated P-value is not indicative of the type I error.
Raufaste
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Laboratoire Génome, Populations, Interactions, cc63, Université Montpellier II, France. nraufaste@crit.univ-montp2.fr
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D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008433:Mathematics; D015233:Models, Statistical