Resemblance calculation

Resemblance is the general term in PRIMER used to cover (dis)similarity or distance coefficients. The next stage in both the Fal nematode and environment runs of the Basic multivariate analysis wizard was to create an appropriate triangular resemblance matrix between all pairs of samples. This is a run of Analyse>Resemblance on the pre-treated (transformed or normalised) worksheet. Relevant defaults will be suggested, given the Data type, i.e. (Measure•Bray-Curtis) for biota and (Measure•Euclidean distance) for environmental variables, and (Analyse between•Samples) in both cases. There are, however, nearly 50 other possible choices on this dialog, see Section 5.