Determining sexual dimorphism in frog measurement data: integration of statistical significance, measurement error, effect size and biological significance

Several analytic techniques have been used to determine sexual dimorphism in vertebrate morphological measurement data with no emergent consensus on which technique is superior. A further confounding problem for frog data is the existence of considerable measurement error. To determine dimorphism, w...

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Main Authors: Lee-Ann C. Hayek, W. Ronald Heyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2005-03-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652005000100005