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A textbook for phylogenetic comparative methods.
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Ch. 4: Divide contrasts by variance, or by standard deviation? #20

Open mikemc opened 3 years ago

mikemc commented 3 years ago

Chapter 4 currently defines the standardized contrasts as dividing the raw contrast by its variance (both in Box 4.2 and in the main text below). Should we not be dividing by the standard deviation?