Benchmarking the Mantel test and derived methods for testing association between distance matrices.

Abstract excerpt

Testing the association between objects is central in ecology, evolution, and quantitative sciences in general. Two types of variables can describe the relationships between objects: point variables (measured on individual objects), and distance variables (measured between pairs of objects). The Mantel test and derived methods have been extensively used for distance variables. Yet, these methods have been...

Topics

• Computer Simulation
• Genetic Variation
• Biostatistics