Reexamination of Statistical Methods for Comparative Anatomy: Examples of Its Application and Comparisons with Other Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics

Table 1

Illustration of individual steps to compute GCAI based on multiple muscles.

Species ()

Species 1 (control species) ( = 1)

Species 2 ( = 2)

Species ( = )

Investigated structures ()

Specific weights given to variation

Innervation ( = 1)

(=3)

Origin ( = 2)

(=2)

Insertion ( = 3)

(=2)

Vascularization ( = 4)

(=1)

Weighted averages for single muscle (PAF = )

Weighted averages for multiple muscles (mean of ) ()

GCAI  =

Note. : proportion of normal structured organs, where represents individual species, represents individual structures (i.e., muscles), and represent individual parameters of the muscles.