The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis

By R. Freckleton. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Paleontology

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Statistical Issues and Assumptions of Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares (2014, methodology): “Otherwise, the reader will be unable to judge the reliability of the analysis and cannot know to what extend the results can be trusted (see also Freckleton 2009).”
Eight (and a half) deadly sins of spatial analysis (2012, methodology): “…to remind workers of some of the pitfalls associated with multiple regression in an ecological context and to propose methods to deal with them (Freckleton, 2002, 2009; Graham, 2003; Whittingham et al., 2006), it remains that while it is a reasonable method for predicting relationships, it is…”
Bergmann's rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern (2013, result): “In contrast to a common recommendation (Freckleton 2009), we display results of both OLS and PGLS analyses.”
Effect of habitat area and isolation on plant trait distribution in European forests and grasslands (2012, background): “…and by including phylogenetic relationships between species since we were both interested in whether some species in Europe with specifi c traits are associated with sensitivity to habitat loss and isolation, and whether there might be evolutionary ecological causal eff ects (Freckleton 2009).”
Positive effect of shade on plant growth: amelioration of stress or active regulation of growth rate? (2012, methodology): “an interspecific data set should be evaluated prior to further statistical analyses (Freckleton 2009).”
The consequences of checking for zero‐inflation and overdispersion in the analysis of count data (2019, methodology): “According to Freckleton (2009), using statistical tests that assume a given distribution on the data while failing to test for the assumptions required of said distribution is one of ‘seven deadly sins’.”
The role of frugivory in the diversification of bats in the Neotropics (2012, methodology): “Assumptions of homoscedasticity and the distribution of residuals, corrected for phylogeny, were checked with diagnostic plots (Freckleton, 2009).”
Neotropical diversification seen through glassfrogs (2014, background): “However, the result should be taken with caution because the residuals are heterocedastic (Freckleton, 2009) and the small sample size (n = 13 clades) could be a problem (Freckleton et al.”