Distance-based methods have been a valuable tool for ecologists for decades. Indirectly, distance-based ordination and cluster analysis, in particular, have been widely practiced as they allow the ...

We study the large-sample joint distribution of Z, the 1/2p(p - 1) Fisher z-transforms of the elements in a p variable correlation matrix. Under the null hypothesis of equal population correlations ...

In this lecture, the independent pathway model is introduced. A general specification of the common factor model is provided first, which is applied to genetic and environmental correlation matrices ...

In semiconductor manufacturing, especially in electrical test data, but also in other parameters, there are often sets of parameters that are very highly correlated. Even a change in the correlation ...

MANOVA is a statistical test that extends the scope of the more commonly used ANOVA, that allows differences between three or more independent groups of explanatory (independent or predictor) ...