Since Kimura (1968) and King & Jukes (1969) first suggested that most polymorphisms are selectively neutral, testing the neutral hypothesis has been one of the prime objectives of molecular population ...

Two major goals in the study of biological systems are inference and prediction. Inference creates a mathematical model of the data-generation process to formalize understanding or test a hypothesis ...

MANOVA is a statistical test that extends the scope of the more commonly used ANOVA, that allows differences between three or more independent groups of explanatory (independent or predictor) ...