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Misconceptions about logarithmic transformation and the traditional allometric method.
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Nonlinear regression should be preferred to the traditional method in future allometric analyses because it can fit two- and three-parameter power equations with differing assumptions about structure for error directly to untransformed data.About:
This article is published in Zoology.The article was published on 2017-08-01. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Logarithmic scale & Allometry.read more
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Sexual selection and static allometry: the importance of function
William G. Eberhard,William G. Eberhard,William G. Eberhard,Rafael L. Rodríguez,Bernhard A. Huber,Bretta Speck,Henry Miller,Bruno A. Buzatto,Glauco Machado +8 more
TL;DR: This work proposes explanations for why sexually selected structures with different functions (courtship, threat signals, and weapons) should differ in allometry and tests predictions empirically by comparing the allometries of male structures with relatively “pure” functions, which were confirmed and helping to explain differences in previous empirical surveys.
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Biological scaling analyses are more than statistical line fitting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the use of logarithms in scaling analyses presents multiple valuable advantages, both statistical and conceptual, and stimulate advocates of arithmetic analyses to show how they may improve our understanding of scaling conceptually, not just statistically.
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Julian Huxley and the quantification of relative growth
TL;DR: The methodology promoted by Huxley has played a major role in development of the field of biological allometry, but the procedure has been superseded by nonlinear regression.
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Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS
TL;DR: Linear Mixed-Effects and Nonlinear Mixed-effects (NLME) models have been studied in the literature as mentioned in this paper, where the structure of grouped data has been used for fitting LME models.
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The Ecological Implications of Body Size
TL;DR: In this paper, a philosophical introduction is given to logarithms, power curves, and correlations, and a mathematical primer: logarsithm, power curve and correlations.
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Problems of relative growth
TL;DR: This detailed study of the different rates of growth of parts of the body relative to the body as a whole represents Sir Julian Huxley's great contribution to analytical morphology, and it is still a basis for modern investigations in morphometrics and evolutionary biology.
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Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry.
TL;DR: This review describes for the practitioner the essential features of line‐fitting methods for estimating the relationship between two variables: what methods are commonly used, which method should be used when, and how to make inferences from these lines to answer common research questions.
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