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IS THE PARTIAL MANTEL TEST INADEQUATE?
Author(s) -
Castellano Sergio,
Balletto Emilio
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00203.x
Subject(s) - null hypothesis , type i and type ii errors , nonparametric statistics , mantel test , biology , statistics , statistical hypothesis testing , correlation , partial correlation
.— 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 a.