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3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

Highlight and select

There are many cases in which analyses of different subsets of the samples or species are require...

(W Australia fish diets)

Dietary data on the gut contents of 7 marine fish species found in nearshore waters of the lower ...

Summary Statistics

File>Open>Filename: WA fish diets %vol, and examine the factors sheet with Edit>Factors. The samp...

Control of highlighting

Thus, with the WA fish diets %vol datasheet as the active window, highlight all columns except th...

Selecting & deselecting highlights

When all except columns A9, B3 and B4 are highlighted, take Select>Highlighted. Alternatively, ri...

Duplicating a selected worksheet

Though most Save operations are on whole workspaces, occasionally a data matrix needs to be saved...

Selecting by factor levels

The highlighting route to selection can be bypassed altogether using the other options on the Sel...

Multiple selections

It is important to note the effect of this second selection on WA fish diets %vol; it produces a ...

Selecting by number and non-missing

It may sometimes be easier to use the sample numbers, here Select>Samples>•Sample numbers> 1,2,5,...

Selecting variables

Any of the options for selecting samples are also available for selecting variables, e.g. selecti...

Selecting by ‘most important’

There are, however, three other selection methods under Select>Variables that are specific to sel...

Selection in resemblance matrices

Looking ahead to Section 5, when the active window is a (triangular) resemblance matrix, selectio...