Unrepeatable Repeatabilities: A Common Mistake
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Auk
- Vol. 104 (1) , 116-121
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4087240
Abstract
Repeatability is a useful tool for the population geneticist or genetical ecologist, but several papers have carried errors in its calculation. We outline the correct calculation of repeatability, point out the common mistake, show how the incorrectly calculated value relates to repeatability, and provide a method for checking published values and calculating approximate repeatability values from the F ratio (mean squares among groups/mean squares within groups).This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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