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Tree menu; Check on datasheets & resemblances; Undefined resemblances
The other Tools menu item for aggregation sheets is distinctive to this case, namely Tools>Tree; ...
Check on aggregation files
Use the open aggregation file, Groundfish taxonomy, to show the smaller set of Tools items (Tree,...
Aggregation
So far we have only seen variable information sheets, containing taxonomic (or other) hierarchies...
Average and Sum on data matrices; Average on resemblance matrices
Tools>Average and Sum operate in the same way on data sheets. For example, when (Samples• Average...
Tools vs. Edit menu
Both the Edit (see Section 1) and Tools main menus carry out ‘housekeeping’ manipulations on a da...
SIMPER on (squared) Euclidean (N Sea biomarkers)
Save and close Tasmania ws and, as a last example, open the recently closed N Sea ws workspace. O...
SIMPER on 2-way crossed layout (Tasmania nematodes)
A natural extension to the 1-way SIMPER is to the 2-way crossed design, so re-open the Tasmania w...
Species typifying a group
Earlier in the results window, tables are given of the contributions of each species to the Bray-...
Species dis-criminating two groups (Bristol Ch. zooplankton)
Re-open the Bristol Channel ws workspace from C:\Examples v7\BC zooplankton, for which the shade ...
SIMPER (Similarity Percentages)
Shade plots are an excellently succinct way of displaying the abundance (or other quantity) of al...
Coherent sets of abiotic variables (N Sea biomarkers)
Save the workspace as Linnhe ws, close it and re-open the data on a suite of biomarkers (‘health’...
‘Mondrian’ shade plots, with sample and variable boundaries
A final possibility for this Loch Linnhe data is to display both horizontal and vertical division...
Line plots vs Shade plots
For this (reduced) Loch Linnhe data matrix, e.g. with the selection of 50 species made in Data1, ...
Running Type 3 SIMPROF
Type 3 SIMPROF can be run as a single test on the species set defined by the active matrix (which...
Running Type 2 SIMPROF
A Type 2 SIMPROF test is not part of a Wizards>Coherent plots run, and there is a good case for c...
Coherence plots wizard & Types 2/3 SIMPROF; (L. Linnhe macrofauna)
The third item on the Wizards menu is Coherence plots. This is a combination of SIMPROF runs with...
Other tree diagrams & SIMPROF (Bristol Ch. zooplankton)
For the final example of the options in shade plot, save and close Exe ws and return to the Brist...
Nearest neighbour ordering
The final option that Reorder offers, attempting to find a useful ordering on a 1-d axis of a non...
Ordering by a worksheet variable
The core task faced by the Special>Reorder operation is to reduce what is inevitably a high-d sim...
Clustering on species and samples (Exe nematodes)
The time-averaged Exe nematode community data were used extensively in Section 8 to illustrate nM...