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(W Australia fish diets)
Dietary data on the gut contents of 7 marine fish species found in nearshore waters of the lower ...
Highlight and select
There are many cases in which analyses of different subsets of the samples or species are require...
Variable information (aggregation files)
However, the full range of hierarchical indicators represented by a Linnaean classification (whi...
Indicators in selection
Selection by indicator levels is demonstrated by Select>Variables>(•Indicator levels)>(Indicator ...
Creating indicators on variables
Indicator is the term PRIMER uses for a factor defined on the variables not on the samples. It is...
Factors in *.xls(x) or *.txt files
As noted in Section 1, factors can be created as part of the Excel or text files which are the us...
Label matching
Alternatively, the same endpoint could have been achieved by Adding three new blank factors to th...
Factor keys
A further button on the Edit>Factors dialog box is Key, which you could examine with the factors ...
A three-factor hierarchical design
We will run PERMANOVA on an example dataset consisting of assemblages of molluscs collected from ...
4.2 Should I use PRIMER or R? (in short)
Use Both! The take-home message here is: use both! Neither replaces the other. They are good at d...
3.6 Summarising the comparison
In summary: I recommend using PERMANOVA in PRIMER. I do not recommend using adonis2 in R. Except...
2.2 R has some down sides
Like any software, R has some down sides. R has a steep learning curve R is a programming languag...
2.1 R has a lot going for it
R is a general tool (). It is a statistical programming language (). There are a lot of people us...
2.3 Pros and Cons of using R
To re-cap and summarise, below is a table outlining the primary pros and cons of using R, as I se...
1.3 Pros and Cons of using PRIMER
To re-cap and summarise, below is a table outlining the primary pros and cons of using PRIMER, as...
Matrix display
The Matrix display wizard produces a shade plot of a multivariate data matrix, with a useful orde...
Uninstall / re-install PRIMER
If you need to move the PRIMER software to a new machine (or re-image the machine), first uninsta...
1. General information
We're delighted that you've chosen to use PRIMER software. If you run in to any difficulties, we'...
Multiple sessions and recent workspaces
As a further example of Fill>Value to quickly set up a factor of group levels you might like to r...
Renaming & reordering factors
Finally, to make factors in the Tasmania nematodes sheet consistent with the text format copepod ...