Problems with residual analysis

By Richard B. Darlington, T. Smulders. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Paleontology, Social Psychology

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On the misuse of residuals in ecology: regression of residuals vs. multiple regression (2002, methodology): “A similar point has been made by Darlington & Smulders (2001) in the context of analysing behavioural data.”
Parasites, testosterone and honest carotenoid-based signalling of health (2007, methodology): “For analysing treatment effects on condition index (body mass relative to size), we used body mass as the dependent variable with wing length, as an index of body size, as a covariate (see Darlington & Smulders 2001).”
Do sexual ornaments demonstrate heightened condition-dependent expression as predicted by the handicap hypothesis? (2004, methodology): “A preferable approach is to express trait size as a function of body size and statistically account for it as a covariate in general linear models, which avoids the drawbacks associated with relative and residual measures (Darlington & Smulders 2001; Garcı́aBertou 2001).”
Horn size predicts physical performance in the beetle Euoniticellus intermedius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (2005, methodology): “Therefore, the partial correlation coefficients in the above model give us the relationship between horn size and performance with the effects of body size statistically extracted, in a manner analogous to residual analyses, but without the loss of a degree of freedom (see Darlington & Smulders 200”
Developmental differences are correlated with relative brain size in birds: a comparative analysis (2003, methodology): “Because there has been some debate regarding the use of residuals to create body-free measurements (Darlington and Smulders 2001; García-Berthou 2001; Lavenex et al. 2002), multiple regressions were used to examine the relationships between relative brain size and the developmental traits.”
Measuring relative investment: a case study of testes investment in species with alternative male reproductive tactics (2002, methodology): “For further recent discussion of the misuse of residuals in ecology and the superiority of ANCOVA see Garci´a-Berthou (2001) and Darlington & Smulders (2001) .”
Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds (2009, unknown): “However, residual analyses may lead to overconservative results and thus an inflation of type II error (Darlington & Smulders 2001).”