Response to Packard: make sure we do not throw out the biological baby with the statistical bath water when performing allometric analyses | Zendy

Jean-François Lemaître | Zendy; Cécile Vanpé | Zendy; Floriane Plard | Zendy; Christophe Pélabon | Zendy; JeanMichel Gaillard | Zendy

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Response to Packard: make sure we do not throw out the biological baby with the statistical bath water when performing allometric analyses

Author(s) -

Jean-François Lemaître,

Cécile Vanpé,

Floriane Plard,

Christophe Pélabon,

JeanMichel Gaillard

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

biology letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.596

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1744-957X

pISSN - 1744-9561

DOI - 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0144

Subject(s) - allometry , biology , trait , evolutionary biology , biological evolution , zoology , statistics , ecology , mathematics , computer science , genetics , programming language

Quantifying accurately the relationship between a phenotypic trait and body mass is a long-standing challenge in evolutionary biology and constitutes the core of allometric analyses. The traditional approach to study allometric relationships (expressed as y = b xa , [[1][1]]) is to fit a linear (or

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