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PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 6. Clustering methods (CLUSTER, SIMPROF...

As discussed at the start of this section, if you have set SIMPROF running, with the (✓SIMPROF te...

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Editing plot titles & scales

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 6. Clustering methods (CLUSTER, SIMPROF...

Still in the Graph Options dialog box, take the Titles tab and edit the main and sub-title conten...

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SIMPROF on large matrices

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 6. Clustering methods (CLUSTER, SIMPROF...

The dendrogram itself is rapidly calculated, at least for the agglomerative methods, since no sea...

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SIMPROF tests

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 6. Clustering methods (CLUSTER, SIMPROF...

All of the clustering methods are able to exploit ‘similarity profile’ (SIMPROF) permutation test...

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Taxonomic dissimilarity measures

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 5. Resemblance: similarities, dissimila...

This concept of taxonomic distinctness can be carried over from a diversity index to a dissimilar...

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Similarity to dissimilarity

PRIMER v7: User Manual / Tutorial 5. Resemblance: similarities, dissimila...

L&L also assign $D_{14}$ to Bray-Curtis dissimilarity, the complement of $S_{17}$, defined earlie...

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2.4 Species similarities

Change in Marine Communities Chapter 2: Simple measures of similarit...

Starting with the original data matrix of abundances (or biomass, area cover etc), the similarity...

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1.1 PRIMER has a lot going for it

Should I use PRIMER or R? 1. Let's consider using PRIMER

PRIMER has a special focus - robust multivariate methods PRIMER is a specialised piece of softwar...

Updated 10 months ago by Marti

(Particle sizes for Danish sediments)

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

Sediment particle size data from 6 size ranges at 3 sites (A, B, C), at 2 depths (2m and 5m), and...

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Cumulating samples

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

The remaining option on the Pre-treatment menu is Cumulate samples, which successively adds up th...

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Mixed data types

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

Another example might be in attempting to reconcile two different types of data in the same matri...

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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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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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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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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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(W Australia fish diets)

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

Dietary data on the gut contents of 7 marine fish species found in nearshore waters of the lower ...

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Label matching

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

Alternatively, the same endpoint could have been achieved by Adding three new blank factors to th...

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A three-factor hierarchical design

A Quick Guide to PRIMER 7. Run a PERMANOVA

We will run PERMANOVA on an example dataset consisting of assemblages of molluscs collected from ...

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4.2 Should I use PRIMER or R? (in short)

Should I use PRIMER or R? 4. Take-home messages

Use Both! The take-home message here is: use both! Neither replaces the other. They are good at d...

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3.6 Summarising the comparison

Should I use PRIMER or R? 3. PERMANOVA vs adonis2 in R

In summary: I recommend using PERMANOVA in PRIMER. I do not recommend using adonis2 in R. Except...

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