Reexamination of Statistical Methods for Comparative Anatomy: Examples of Its
Application and Comparisons with Other Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics
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Aversi-Ferreira RA
; Nishijo H
; Aversi-Ferreira TA
Biomed Res Int
2015[]; 2015
(?): 902534
PMID26413553
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Various statistical methods have been published for comparative anatomy. However,
few studies compared parametric and nonparametric statistical methods. Moreover,
some previous studies using statistical method for comparative anatomy (SMCA)
proposed the formula for comparison of groups of anatomical structures (multiple
structures) among different species. The present paper described the usage of
SMCA and compared the results by SMCA with those by parametric test (t-test) and
nonparametric analyses (cladistics) of anatomical data. In conclusion, the SMCA
can offer a more exact and precise way to compare single and multiple anatomical
structures across different species, which requires analyses of nominal features
in comparative anatomy.