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Metric or non-metric plots?
The Analyse>Bootstrap Averages routine allows both metric and non-metric options for the MDS ordi...
Bootstrap regions
These averages can then be used to generate a bootstrap region for each of the g groups – at its ...
Analogue of univariate means plots
For this final section, we consider only cases in which the samples form a 1-way layout, i.e. the...
S estimators
PRIMER therefore includes a number of S extrapolators – attempts to predict the true total number...
(Sea-loch contiguous macrofauna cores); Species accumulation plots
The final set of data in this section is of a benthic study by Gage JD & Coghill GG 1977, in Coul...
(Tikus Is coral cover)
The Tikus Island, Indonesia, data on % area cover of coral communities on 10 transects in the yea...
Testing for $k$-dominance curves
Testing for differences in ABC curves for group structures of sites, times or treatments etc., wh...
Matching when there are selections
An attempt to run the routine with the matrices reversed, or to run it on a data type Environment...
(L. Linnhe macrofauna time-series); k-dominance, ordinary & partial plots
Macrobenthos in soft sediments of a site in Loch Linnhe, Scotland were monitored by Pearson TH 19...
Abundance-Biomass Comparison curves
ABC curves plot abundance and biomass k-dominance lines on the same plot, and are interpreted in ...
Dominance curves
Dominance plot is the convenient generic name for a family of curves also known as ranked species...
Geometric class plots
These are essentially multiple frequency polygons, plotted on a single graph, for each sample in ...
Range of diversity curves
PRIMER plots a range of what might be termed diversity curves, under the Plots>Geometric Class Pl...
Using taxon frequency in simulations
Another option on the TAXDTEST dialogs is that the simulation of random draws from the master lis...
Funnels for a range of sublist sizes
It is impractical to produce detailed histograms, such as those above, for each of the 277 sample...
Histograms for one sublist size
For an example, take the first of the 277 groundfish samples, the 0.25$^\circ$ rectangle S1. High...
TAXDTEST (European groundfish)
Further theoretical details and discussion can be found in Chapter 17 of CiMC, which also present...
Taxonomic distinctness (European groundfish)
The aggregation matrix for the NW European beam-trawl survey data on groundfish assemblages (93 s...
Distances in aggregation worksheets
Such tree structures (e.g. taxonomies) are one of a distinct worksheet type, Variable Information...
Species distance information
For the first set of measures (on the Taxdisc tab), the Taxonomy button gives a choice of whether...