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

Table 5

Analyses of the anatomical data by parametrical -test and nonparametrical SMCA (CAI) [6].

Specimens	Average ratios of length of palmaris longus to tendon length	Primate grouping	CAI (nonparametric analysis)
Gorilla	No data in the literature	Apes	0.133
Pan	1.78 (±0.04)		0.082
Pongo	1.89 (±0.15)		0.036
Macaca fuscata	2.37 (±0.12)	Old world primate	0.036
Callithrix sp.	2.53 (±0.08)	New world primates	0
Ateles sp.	2.53		0
Sapajus libidinosus	3.81 (±1.07)		0
Lemur catta	4.53 (±0.27)	Prosimii	0
Propithecus sp.	5.16 (±0.49)		Reference as more primitive specimen