Use and misuse of the reduced major axis for line-fitting.

By Richard J. Smith. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2009

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Body Size, Body Shape, and the Circumscription of the Genus Homo (2012, methodology): “…this reason, a recent human least squares regression formula (arguably the most appropriate formula for prediction; see Hens, Konigsberg, and Jungers 2000; Jungers 1982; Martin, Genoud, and Hemelrijk 2005; Smith 2009) from McHenry (1992) is used here to predict body mass from femoral head diameter.”
Light and growth in marine phytoplankton: allometric, taxonomic, and environmental variation (2015, methodology): “…defining the allometric relationship is poorly constrained, due to the fact that LS slopes are biased to be too shallow by measurement error in cell volume, and SMA slopes are biased to be too steep due to both measurement error and large unexplained natural variation in the traits (Smith 2009).”
Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity–productivity relationships in Iberian forests (2014, methodology): “the bivariate line (Smith 2009).”
Characterization of Landsat-7 to Landsat-8 reflective wavelength and normalized difference vegetation index continuity. (2016, background): “, OLI or ETM+ data) and which is the independent variable (Smith, 2009).”
smatr 3– an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines (2012, background): “Another way to understand this is to see that the problem is symmetric – the basic problem does not change if we plot lma on the Y axis instead of the X axis (Smith 2009).”