More recently, Morrissey et al. (2012b) used a multivariate method proposed by Agrawal and Stinchcombe (2009) to provide evidence for genetic constraint through antagonistic correlations between female adult survival and female reproductive traits.
Since there was significant difference between the ages of premenopausal and postmenopausal groups, other variabilities adjusted with age were evaluated by a multivariate analyze method (Hotelling T2 test).
Results: A repeated-measures analysis of variance by using the multivariate method yielded a 35% lower mean velocity (F1,13 = 5.83, P =.031), a 110% larger segment length variability (F1,13 = 9.72, P =.008) and a 60% larger variability of movement time per segment (F1,13 = 5.78, P =.032) in RSD patients.
In addition, univariate analysis for EW56 discovered a novel effective locus missed by multivariate method.
The AFLP data matrix was also examined by PCoA, a multivariate ordination method used to explore and visualize relationships within a data set.
The proportion of patients over time was estimated by means of Kaplan-Meier analysis comparing subjects identified as independent factors by multivariate method as well as first-line treatment status.
In that case the mutual information between the different components needs to be deduced by a multivariate approach (see Methods) [ 11, 12].
In order to assess the relative contribution of each criterion to this discrimination, lymph node histology patterns were further analyzed by Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), a multivariate statistical method designed to describe objects characterized by categorical variables [27] [29].
In the statistical analyses, we will adjust for interference by applying multivariate methods.
Indeed, the number of parameters estimated by the multivariate methods is excessive compared with the size of the population.
