Chapter 9: Transformations and dispersion weighting
9.1 Introduction
There are two distinct roles for transformations in community analyses: a) to validate statistica...
9.2 Univariate case
For purely illustrative purposes, Table 9.1 extracts the counts of a single Thyasira species from...
9.3 Multivariate case
There being no necessity to transform to attain distributional properties, transformations play a...
9.4 Recommendations
The transformation sequence in a multivariate analysis, corresponding to a progressive downweight...
9.5 Dispersion weighting
There is a clear dichotomy, in defining sample similarities, between methods which give each vari...
9.6 Example: Fal estuary copepods
and present biotic and environmental data from five creeks of the Fal estuary, SW England, whos...
9.7 Variability weighting
describe a similar idea to dispersion weighting for use when the data are continuous biological ...