Table of contents

• Citation
• Summary
• 1. Install & activate PRIMER 8
  • Overview
• 2. Getting data in to PRIMER
  • Getting example data
  • Opening example data
  • Importing data from Excel
  • Post-import data checks
  • Save your data & workspace
• 3. Example analysis pathway (CLUSTER, MDS, ANOSIM)
  • An analysis of biotic data
  • Step 1: Transformation
  • Step 2: Resemblance
  • Step 3: Cluster
  • Step 4: Ordination
  • Step 5: ANOSIM test
  • Summary of the pathway
• 4. Some wizards
  • Basic multivariate analysis
  • Matrix display
• 5. Run a PERMANOVA
  • Overview
  • A three-factor hierarchical design
  • Steps in a PERMANOVA analysis
  • Step 1: Data selection
  • Step 2: Jaccard resemblance
  • Step 3: Specify the design
  • Step 4: Run PERMANOVA
  • Step 4 (continued): Key additional destails about PERMANOVA in PRIMER
  • Step 5: Ordination of centroids
  • Summary of the PERMANOVA analysis
• 6. Help & additional resources
  • Help & support
  • Further reading
• References