Dear All - I would like to thank all those who sent in suggestions for
basic and introductory texts (plus software, papers and websites also)
on the subject of multivariate statistics. Here is a compilation of
those replies:
*The most frequently recommended text (and software) was this one:*
McCune, B. and J. B. Grace. 2002. /Analysis of ecological communities/.
MjM Software Designs, Gleneden Beach, OR.
McCune, B. and M. J. Mefford. 2006. /PC-ORD. Multivariate analysis of
ecological data. Ver. 5/. MjM Software Designs, Gleneden Beach, OR.
*This one ranked high also:*
McGarigal, K., S. Cushman and S. Stafford. 2000. /Multivariate
Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research/ (paperback, $41). Springer.
*This one was mentioned several times for the clarity of the writing:*
Gotelli, N. and A. Ellison. 2004. /A Primer of Ecological Statistics/.
Sinauer & Associates.
(paperback, $37).
Tabachnic, B. and L. Fidell. 2006. /Using Multivariate Statistics, 5th
Ed/. Allyn & Bacon.
Note: this one comes in at a whopping 1008 pages and costs $112!
*Others receiving at least one mention were:*
Shaw, Peter. 2009. /Multivariate Statistics for Environmental Sciences/.
Wiley. (paperback, $61).
Kent, M. and P. Coker. 1995. /Vegetation Description & Analysis: A
Practical Approach/. John Wiley & Sons (out of print).
Legendre P, Legendre L. 1998. /Numerical ecology, Vol. 20, 2nd ed/.
Elsevier Science. (paperback, $99). This one is 870 pgs.
/Permanova+ for Primer /by Marti Anderson, Ray Gorley, and Robert
Clarke. You might not be able to get this one without also purchasing
the software, Primer.
Bolker, B. /Ecological Models in R/. (couldn’t find this one in Amazon)
Crawley, M. 2007. /The R Book/. Wiley. (950 pgs, $77). Crawley also has
other R books.
Manly, B.F.J. 2004. /Multivariate statistical methods: a primer, 3rd
ed/. Chapman & Hall. (paperback, $52).
*Two papers were also suggested:*
Anderson MJ (2001) A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis
of variance. Austral Ecology 26:32-46
Anderson MJ, Willis TJ (2003) Canonical analysis of principal
coordinates: a useful method of constrained ordination for ecology.
Ecology 84:511-525. The website for her software is:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~mja/Programs.htm
The person recommending these papers also wrote “/One useful thing about
Marti's work is that she often puts in an ANOVA context, which
ecologists tend to be more comfortable with/.”
*Several websites were also recommended:*
http://ordination.okstate.edu/
http://cc.oulu.fi/~jarioksa/opetus/metodi/vegantutor.pdf
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/
http://stattrek.com/online-tutorials/tutorial-list.aspx
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/
Again, my thanks to all.
Howie Neufeld
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Dr. Howard S. Neufeld, Professor
Department of Biology
572 Rivers Street
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
email: [email protected]
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personal webpage: http://www.appstate.edu/~neufeldhs/index.html
Tel: 828-262-2683
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