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- noun statistics The presence of greater
dispersion in adata set than would be expected according to thestatistical model in use.
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Moreover, I seem to recall that there might be some overdispersion present, so something like negative binomial marginals might be better.
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When the slope is less than one (dashed line in the bottom panel) this shows a bias towards lower phylogenetic overdispersion and phylogenetic clustering.
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When the slope is greater than one (dashed line in the top panel) shows a bias towards higher phylogenetic overdispersion and phylogenetic clustering.
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Thus negative NRI and NTI values indicate a high level of phylogenetic overdispersion.
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Distributions of numbers of contacts are discrete distributions and usually display a high degree of overdispersion with some persons having large numbers and many persons having low numbers of contacts.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mirjam Kretzschmar et al. 2009
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Median IBS and overdispersion factor (lambda) of the quantile-quantile plot for each population pair (a), and values of chi-square test statistic (b) and expected mean IBS (c) for combinations of allele frequencies in two populations.
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