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Compatibility of files
PRIMER 7 is fully forward-compatible from v6, and can input PRIMER 6, 5 and 4 data (*.pri and *.p...
1.4 Sums of squares from a distance matrix
We can now consider the structure of a distance/dissimilarity matrix and how sums of squares for ...
Citation
Anderson, M.J. (2024) Should I use PRIMER or R? PRIMER-e Learning Hub. PRIMER-e, Auckland, New Z...
Example data
Help>Get Examples V7 will take you to the data sets used throughout this manual [and Help>Get Exa...
Help system & manuals
The Help main menu has the entries shown, starting with View Help, the HTML Help system: This li...
Step 4: Run PERMANOVA
Once the design file is created, we are ready to go ahead with the PERMANOVA analysis. Click on ...
Step 5: Ordination of centroids
Having seen the results of a PERMANOVA analysis, it is natural to wish to see a visualisation of ...
Steps in a PERMANOVA analysis
The two essential steps required to run a PERMANOVA analysis in PRIMER are always: first, speci...
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.......
Step 1: Transformation
Perform the transformation There are a range of possible transformations one might use in a pre-t...
Step 3: Cluster
Now that we have a resemblance matrix, we can proceed with a cluster analysis of the data. The pu...
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...
Post-import data checks
Check the orientation After import, make sure you have specified the orientation correctly by exa...