Dear Marcello,

Thank you for your response. I now performed the analysis suggested by you.
Kind regards,
Jens

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 2:38:52 PM UTC+1, marcelo.cardillo wrote:
>
> If you want to use "free size effect data" I think it can be good idea 
>  use the residuals of the regression between the PC and log(lengh), because 
> this residuals are new variables not explained by size.
>
>              best
>                          M
>
> 2015-10-26 9:42 GMT-03:00 Jens De meyer <[email protected] <javascript:>
> >:
>
>> Dear,
>>
>> I have a question about EFDs, and was wondering if you could help me? I 
>> have performed a PCA on standardized EFDs (standardized for first harmonic, 
>> using SHAPE-software). The EFDs represented head shapes of eels which were 
>> given different diets (we compared three different diets). The results of 
>> the PCA indicated that PC1 was related to variation in head width, with 
>> high PC-scores being related to broader heads and vice versa. Next, we 
>> performed a linear regression on these PC-scores and log(length) of the 
>> three different diets and observed a size-effect in all three diets.
>> Because of this, I wanted to divide the PC-scores by the total length of 
>> the studied eels. Then, we would perform an ANOVA on these length-corrected 
>> PC-scores between the different diets, as this would allow us to find out 
>> whether the mean head width of a certain diet is significantly broader than 
>> another diet.
>> Therefore, my question to you is: Am I acutally allowed to divide these 
>> PC-scores by total length?
>> Many thanks in advance!
>> Kind regards,
>> Jens De Meyer
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