title: Are partial mantel tests adequate?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Génome, Populations, Interactions, cc63, Université Montpellier II, France. nraufaste@crit.univ-montp2.fr
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Raufaste
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rousset
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008433:Mathematics; D015233:Models, Statistical