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5.9 Caveats on using CAP (Tikus Island corals)

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When using the CAP routine, it should come as no surprise that the hypothesis (usually) is eviden...

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5.8 CAP versus PERMANOVA

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It might seem confusing that both CAP and PERMANOVA can be used to test for differences among gro...

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5.7 Test by permutation (Anderson’s irises)

PERMANOVA+ for PRIMER: Guide to Softwar... Chapter 5: Canonical analysis of princi...

CAP can be used to test for significant differences among the groups in multivariate space. The t...

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5.5 Diagnostics

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How did the CAP routine choose an appropriate number of PCO axes to use for the above discriminan...

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5.4 Discriminant analysis (Poor Knights Islands fish)

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We will begin with an example provided by Trevor Willis and Chris Denny (; ), examining temperate...

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5.3 Mechanics of CAP

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Details of CAP and how it is related to other methods are provided by and . In brief, a classica...

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5.2 Rationale (Flea-beetles)

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In some cases, we may know that there are differences among some pre-defined groups (for example,...

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4.1 General description

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Key references Method:, Permutation methods: , , ,   DISTLM is a routine for analysing and ...

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4.16 DISTLM versus BEST/ BIOENV

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On the face of it, the DISTLM routine might be thought of as playing a similar role to PRIMER’s B...

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4.15 Categorical predictor variables (Oribatid mites)

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Sometimes the predictor variables of interest are not quantitative, continuous variables, but rat...

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4.14 Analysing variables in sets (Thau lagoon bacteria)

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In some situations, it is useful to be able to partition variability in the data cloud according ...

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4.13 dbRDA plot for Ekofisk

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Let us examine the constrained dbRDA ordination for the parsimonious model obtained earlier using...

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4.12 Vector overlays in dbRDA

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Something which certainly should come as no surprise is to see the X variables playing an importa...

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4.11 Visualising models: dbRDA

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We may wish to visualise a given model in the multivariate space of our chosen resemblance matrix...

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4.10 (Ekofisk macrofauna)

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We shall now use the DISTLM tool to identify potential parsimonious models for benthic macrofauna...

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4.9 Cautionary notes

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Before proceeding, a few cautionary notes are appropriate with respect to building models. First,...

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4.8 Building models

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In many situations, a scientist may have measured a large number of predictor variables that coul...

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4.7 Assumptions & diagnostics

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Thus far, we have only done examples for a univariate response variable in Euclidean space, using...

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4.6 (Holdfast invertebrates)

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To demonstrate conditional tests in DISTLM, we will consider the number of species inhabiting hol...

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4.5 Conditional tests

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More generally, when X contains more than one variable, we may also be interested in conditional ...

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