Abstract
An approach to the analysis of multiple-choice food selection experiments proposed recently is criticised on three grounds and modified methods are suggested.
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Manly, B.F.J. Comments on design and analysis of multiple-choice feeding-preference experiments. Oecologia 93, 149–152 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00321205
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00321205