IS THE PARTIAL MANTEL TEST INADEQUATE?

Sergio Castellano; Emilio Balletto

doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1871:ITPMTI]2.0.CO;2

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Sergio Castellano,^1,* Emilio Balletto¹

¹Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Via Accademia Albertina, 17, 10123-Torino, Italy

^*sergio.castellano@unito.it

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 α.

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Sergio Castellano and Emilio Balletto "IS THE PARTIAL MANTEL TEST INADEQUATE?," Evolution 56(9), 1871-1873, (1 September 2002). https://doi.org/10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1871:ITPMTI]2.0.CO;2

Received: 24 January 2002; Accepted: 27 May 2002; Published: 1 September 2002