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 ## References
 
-The performance of Laplace approximations used by `spaMM` was assessed for spatial GLMMs in:
+The performance of likelihood ratio tests based on `spaMM` fits, and the impact of some likelihood approximations, were assessed for spatial GLMMs in:
     Rousset F., Ferdy J.-B. (2014) [Testing environmental and genetic effects in the presence of spatial autocorrelation](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.00566/abstract). Ecography, 37: 781-790.
 Also available here is the [Supplementary Appendix G](http://kimura.univ-montp2.fr/%7Erousset/spaMM/RoussetF14AppendixG.pdf) from that paper, including comparisons with a trick that has been uncritically used to constrain the functions `lmer` and `glmmPQL` to analyse spatial models.