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Transforming (individual)

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

Both the Draftsman and Histogram Plots show that several of the Ekofisk abiotic variables are hig...

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Draftsman, histogram & multi-plots

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

Temporarily deselect the Distance (as in Section 3), and run Plots>Draftsman Plot on the other 9 ...

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Transforming abiotic variables

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

Transformations may be appropriate for environmental variables too, though usually for a differen...

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Shade plots to aid choice of transform

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

A major new feature in PRIMER 7 is the large number of additional plotting routines, one of the c...

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Transforming (overall)

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

Transformation is usually applied to all the entries in an assemblage matrix of counts, biomass, ...

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Standardising species

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

Pre-treatment>Standardise can also be used to standardise the matrix on the variables axis, e.g. ...

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Stats to worksheet

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

Several of the routines in PRIMER 7 also incorporate a check box for sending summary statistics u...

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Standardising samples

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 4. Pre-treatment options

How the data are treated, prior to computation of a resemblance matrix (e.g. similarities), can h...

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Selection in resemblance matrices

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Selecting by number and non-missing

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Selecting by ‘most important’

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Selecting variables

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Importing factors

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 2. Factors (and Indicators), identifyin...

New factors can be created at several stages during an analysis, not just when the active window ...

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Multiple selections

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Selecting by factor levels

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Duplicating a selected worksheet

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Selecting & deselecting highlights

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Control of highlighting

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Summary Statistics

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 3. Highlighting and selection (Select)

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

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Combining factors (e.g. to average)

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 2. Factors (and Indicators), identifyin...

With the Tasmania nematodes sheet active, open the Factors dialog with Edit>Factors. Combining fa...

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