The causes of matrilocal residence:  a cross-ethnohistorical survey

"Frequent external warfare should be correlated with houses that have larger living floor areas than when external warfare is infrequent" (304)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Gamma	Supported	p<.01	.83	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Average Living Floor Area Of Houses	Association	Dwellings
Warfare Frequency	`UNKNOWN`	Ingroup Antagonisms, Instigation Of War, Warfare

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Divale, William Tulio	1974	"External warfare should be correlated with houses that have larger living floor areas while internal warfare should be associated with smaller floor areas" (302)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Divale, William Tulio	1974	"Uxorilocal or matrilocal residence should be correlated with houses that have larger living floor areas than houses where avunculocal or patrilocal residence is practiced" (299)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Divale, William Tulio	1974	"When feuding is absent or infrequent houses should tend to have larger living floor areas than when feuding is frequent" (306)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Divale, William Tulio	1974	"A high degree of male exogamy should be correlated with larger living floor areas than when males are locally endogamous" (309)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1973	Since in societies with sororal polygyny co-wives live together in the same house, it should also be true that sisters find it easier to live together when they are married to different men in matrilocal societies. I expected houses in matrilocal societies to have a larger living floor area than houses in patrilocal societies (177)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author