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Opening example data
Data from the Fal estuary Example datasets can be obtained via the Help menu item. Click Help > G...
Importing data from Excel
Step 1. Ensure your data are in a format suitable for import into PRIMER Suppose we have a datase...
Post-import data checks
Check the orientation After import, make sure you have specified the orientation correctly by exa...
Save your data & workspace
Save your data in PRIMER (*.pri) format To save a data sheet in PRIMER (*.pri) format, click on t...
Summary of the PERMANOVA analysis
A summary of the essential steps associated with performing this PERMANOVA analysis of the holdfa...
Step 5: Ordination of centroids
Having seen the results of a PERMANOVA analysis, it is natural to wish to see a visualisation of ...
Step 4 (continued): Key additional details about PERMANOVA in PRIMER
Following the PERMANOVA table of results, a suite of key additional details regarding the analysi...
Step 4: Run PERMANOVA
Once the design file is created, we are ready to go ahead with the PERMANOVA analysis. Click on ...
Step 3: Specify the design
PERMANOVA requires a design file to run. You can see the Factors associated with the holdfast dat...
Step 2: Jaccard resemblance
Calculate the Jaccard resemblance From the 'Molluscs' data sheet, click Analyse > Resemblance.......
Steps in a PERMANOVA analysis
The two essential steps required to run a PERMANOVA analysis in PRIMER are always: first, speci...
A three-factor hierarchical design
We will run PERMANOVA on an example dataset consisting of assemblages of molluscs collected from ...
Overview
If you have purchased a subscription to PRIMER 8 with PERMANOVA+, then you will have access to th...
Matrix display
The Matrix display wizard produces a shade plot of a multivariate data matrix, with a useful orde...
Basic multivariate analysis
A useful analysis pathway (including the Example Analysis Pathway done above, with its five steps...
Summary of the pathway
A summary of the essential routines in PRIMER 8 that were used to produce the 5-step analysis pat...
Step 5: ANOSIM test
The ordination plot gives us a visualisation of the rank-order relationships among the samples, b...
Step 4: Ordination
The cluster analysis goes some way towards helping us to understand potential patterns of similar...
Step 3: Cluster
Now that we have a resemblance matrix, we can proceed with a cluster analysis of the data. The pu...
Step 2: Resemblance
For a description of the Bray-Curtis resemblance measure and the rationale for its use with bioti...