Mantel Permutation Tests

Nonparametric Survival Analysis: Cox-Mantel tests and Permutation tests

Comparison of Permutation Methods for the Partial Correlation and Partial Mantel Tests

This study compares empirical type I error and power of different permutation techniques that can be used for partial correlation analysis involving three data vectors and for partial Mantel tests. The partial Mantel test is a form of first-order partial correlation analysis involving three distance matrices which is widely used in such fields as population genetics, ecology, anthropology, psyc...

coin: A Computational Framework for Conditional Inference

The coin package implements a unified approach for conditional inference procedures commonly known as permutation tests. The theoretical basis of design and implementation is the unified framework for permutation tests given by Strasser and Weber (1999). For a very flexible formulation of multivariate linear statistics, Strasser and Weber (1999) derived the conditional expectation and covarianc...

LASR 2007 — Systems

Bioinformatics sample summaries often involve distances or the conversion of similarities to dissimilarities, while Procrustes methods can proceed either via distances or via the shape coordinates underlying those distances. There is a distance–distance statistical method, currently increasing in popularity in some of my applications domains, that is at once simple, intuitive, and quite wronghe...

Assessing phylogenetic signal with measurement error: a comparison of Mantel tests, Blomberg et al.'s K, and phylogenetic distograms.

In macroevolutionary studies, different approaches are commonly used to measure phylogenetic signal--the tendency of related taxa to resemble one another--including the K statistic and the Mantel test. The latter was recently criticized for lacking statistical power. Using new simulations, we show that the power of the Mantel test depends on the metrics used to define trait distances and phylog...