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Opening example data

Get Started with PRIMER 8 2. Getting data in to PRIMER

Data from the Fal estuary Example datasets can be obtained via the Help menu item. Click Help > G...

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Importing data from Excel

Get Started with PRIMER 8 2. Getting data in to PRIMER

Step 1. Ensure your data are in a format suitable for import into PRIMER Suppose we have a datase...

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Post-import data checks

Get Started with PRIMER 8 2. Getting data in to PRIMER

Check the orientation After import, make sure you have specified the orientation correctly by exa...

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Save your data & workspace

Get Started with PRIMER 8 2. Getting data in to PRIMER

Save your data in PRIMER (*.pri) format To save a data sheet in PRIMER (*.pri) format, click on t...

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Summary of the PERMANOVA analysis

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

A summary of the essential steps associated with performing this PERMANOVA analysis of the holdfa...

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Step 5: Ordination of centroids

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

Having seen the results of a PERMANOVA analysis, it is natural to wish to see a visualisation of ...

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Step 4 (continued): Key additional details about PERMANOVA in PRIMER

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

Following the PERMANOVA table of results, a suite of key additional details regarding the analysi...

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Step 4: Run PERMANOVA

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

Once the design file is created, we are ready to go ahead with the PERMANOVA analysis. Click on ...

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Step 3: Specify the design

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

PERMANOVA requires a design file to run. You can see the Factors associated with the holdfast dat...

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Step 2: Jaccard resemblance

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

Calculate the Jaccard resemblance From the 'Molluscs' data sheet, click Analyse > Resemblance.......

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Steps in a PERMANOVA analysis

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

The two essential steps required to run a PERMANOVA analysis in PRIMER are always: first, speci...

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A three-factor hierarchical design

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

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

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Overview

Get Started with PRIMER 8 5. Run a PERMANOVA

If you have purchased a subscription to PRIMER 8 with PERMANOVA+, then you will have access to th...

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Matrix display

Get Started with PRIMER 8 4. Some wizards

The Matrix display wizard produces a shade plot of a multivariate data matrix, with a useful orde...

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Basic multivariate analysis

Get Started with PRIMER 8 4. Some wizards

A useful analysis pathway (including the Example Analysis Pathway done above, with its five steps...

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Summary of the pathway

Get Started with PRIMER 8 3. Example analysis pathway (CLUSTER, M...

A summary of the essential routines in PRIMER 8 that were used to produce the 5-step analysis pat...

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Step 5: ANOSIM test

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The ordination plot gives us a visualisation of the rank-order relationships among the samples, b...

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Step 4: Ordination

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The cluster analysis goes some way towards helping us to understand potential patterns of similar...

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Step 3: Cluster

Get Started with PRIMER 8 3. Example analysis pathway (CLUSTER, M...

Now that we have a resemblance matrix, we can proceed with a cluster analysis of the data. The pu...

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Step 2: Resemblance

Get Started with PRIMER 8 3. Example analysis pathway (CLUSTER, M...

For a description of the Bray-Curtis resemblance measure and the rationale for its use with bioti...

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