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*Thanks* all those who took the time to help me (even if the
"question" was not related to - the use of - R).
Now I think I can soundly make my point w/ the referee (can I use your
replies? If so I intend to properly cite its use?!?).
In general, I think it is best not to cite this kind of replies, at
least not in publications. Steve E's note is a bit of an eye-opener in
that regard: There could in fact be serious problems in your analysis
without respondents realizing it (e.g., you could have 1700 larvae, but
they came from only 10 batches of eggs with a strong within-batch
correlation). Judging from the text below I wouldn't expect that this is
the case, but the risk is there. The general problem is that it is very
difficult to give credit without also assigning some level of
responsibility.
-pd
Regards, Eduardo Esteves
ps - Sorry for not explaining the "biological details" of my posting:
RNA/DNA is the ratio of RNA content to DNA content obtained for
individual fish larvae (plus for each one I noted if it had visible
prey items in the gut or not, thus the levels Prey and Empty of factor
Gut); and sl is the standard length (distance from the tip of snout to
the posterior extremity of the hypurals, the expanded bones at the end
of the backbone that support the caudal fin, in mm) of the specimens.
In the MS, I consider the relationship RNA/DNA to sl to be
biologically irrelevant (due to the very low r2) although
statistically significant. Furthermore, no effect of gut content upon
that relationship is significant (facilitating further analysis of
pooled data).
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