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Install and activate PRIMER
Install the software Double click on the downloaded installation file ('PRIMER7Setup.exe') to st...
Step 5: ANOSIM test
The ordination plot gives us a visualisation of the rank-order relationships among the samples, b...
Step 1: Transformation
Perform the transformation There are a range of possible transformations one might use in a pre-t...
Step 2: Resemblance
For a description of the Bray-Curtis resemblane measure and the rationale for its use with biotic...
Step 3: Cluster
Now that we have a resemblance matrix, we can proceed with a cluster analysis of the data. The pu...
Step 4: Ordination
The cluster analysis goes some way towards helping us to understand potential patterns of similar...
Other analyses
A further bubble plot you might like to try on the Fal nMDS is to superimpose abiotic variables f...
MDS & PCA ordinations
The Basic MVA wizard next produces non-metric MDS (nMDS) plots in 2-d and 3-d, together with thei...
Importing data from Excel
Step 1. Ensure your data are in a format suitable for import into PRIMER Suppose we have a datase...
Download manuals
The following manuals can be downloaded from within the software itself: Getting Started...: Cl...
1.5 The pseudo-F statistic
Once the partitioning has been done we are ready to calculate a test statistic associated with th...
1.2 Univariate techniques
For diversity indices and other single-variable extractions from the data matrix, standard statis...
0.2 Acknowledgements
Any initiative spanning quite as long a period as the PRIMER software represents (the first recog...
Basic multivariate analysis
A useful analysis pathway (including the Example Analysis Pathway done above, with its five steps...
Save your data & workspace
Save your data in PRIMER (*.pri) format To save a data sheet in PRIMER (*.pri) format, click on t...
Opening example data
Data from the Fal estuary Example datasets in PRIMER can be obtained via the Help menu item. In t...
Download example data
You must be connected to the internet to download the example datasets. The Help menu item in PRI...
Post-import data checks
Check the orientation After import, make sure you have specified the orientation correctly by exa...
Typographic conventions for this manual
Emphases & text symbols Text in bold indicates the menu items that need to be selected, > denotes...
ANOSIM tests
The wizard then runs, for both biotic and abiotic data, Analyse>ANOSIM>(Model: One-way - A) & (Fa...