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Subject: Splitting up a data set versus combining it for CVA
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 08:00:31 -0400
From: Alexandra Wegmann <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Alexandra Wegmann <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Dear Morphometricians
I am trying to publish the results of my master thesis. In the thesis I
did a separate canonical variates analyses for each question including
only the procrusted data of the specimens of interest (i.e. one data set
just contained the adults, another one only the juveniles, another one
just the laboratory reared specimens etc). A paper should however be as
short as possible, therefore I am considering combining all the data
into one data set, running the analysis once and then just discussing
the groups in question in each chapter (like this I only have to explain
the morphological changes associated with each axis once in the paper).
I would highly appreciate your advice as to whether I can take this
approach or if it is problematic for statistical reasons which evade me.
I thank you in advance for your answer.
Kind regards
Alexandra
[email protected]
Alexandra Wegmann
University of Zurich
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Switzerland
