Is there a “Wainer’s rule”? Testing which sex varies most as an example analysis using GueSDat, the free Guenon Skull Database

Hystrix

Andrea Cardini¹ 

关键词: allometry;    anatomical landmarks;    bootstrap;    geometric morphometrics;    Procrustes;    sampling error;    shape;    size;   

DOI  :  10.4404/hystrix-28.2-12139

学科分类：动物科学

来源: Associazione Teriologica Italiana

【 摘 要 】

The distinguished statistician Howard Wainer claimed that larger phenotypic variance in males might be a general occurrence in mammals. We called this putative pattern "Wainer’s rule" and employed a dataset of more than 1300 specimens, each meas

【 授权许可】

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