HIERFSTAT, a package for R to compute and test hierarchical F-statistics

Abstract

The package HIERPSTAT for the statistical software R, created by the R Development Core Team, allows the estimate of hierarchical F-statistics from a hierarchy with any numbers of levels. In addition, it allows testing the statistical significance of population differentiation for these different levels, using a generalized likelihood-ratio test. The package HIERFSTAT is available at http://www.unil.ch/popgen/softwares/hierfstat.htm. © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.