title: Is the partial Mantel test inadequate?
abstract: A publication by Raufaste and Rousset (2001) questioned the effectiveness of the partial Mantel test, a nonparametric statistical test for association among three distance matrices. By repeated simulations, we calculated the cumulative density functions of the null-hypothesis probability of no correlation, within an explicit model of causal relationships. Results do not support the criticism: in conditions of moderate correlation between the independent matrices, the actual error rate is closely associated to the intended type-I error alpha.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Torino, Italy. sergio.castellano@unito.it
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Castellano
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Balletto
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008433:Mathematics; D015233:Models, Statistical