Re: What are F statistics and more specifically what are pairwise Fst values?

I am not entirely clear what you mean by Fst, Fit and Fis.  F values are 
computed as ratios of chi-square values divided by their dfs.  You need to 
compute a standardized value (remove the mean), and square them and sum 
them.  

I would guess that the Fis, Fit and Fst values are three F values for a 
three factor experiment. If so, most stat texts would include these 
formulae.  Kirk is a good one for that.


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We received the following further information from D. Kohn:


a way to
contact her, or do you know whether she was put onto the right track?  She
needs to know that they refer to Sewell Wright's statistics for
calculating apportionment of genetic variation among and between (hence
pairwise) populations.