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