Hi Howie! > Dear All - I confess to having last taken multivariate statistics back in > 1977, but to have used them very infrequently since then. Thus, I am not up > on the latest texts for this discipline. > Therefore, I would like to ask if anyone can recommend a recent, but VERY > BASIC introductory text for multivariate analysis, perhaps with an > ecological emphasis? I would like to emphasize the "VERY BASIC" aspect of > my request. Most texts that I have perused, I openly confess, are beyond > me. I need to start at the beginning, again. > And dare I ask (or even want to know!) if there is a Multivariate for > Dummies out there?
Take a look at: http://ordination.okstate.edu/selfed.htm It lists several books that cover multivariate topics in order of complexity. I have found both the Leps and Smilauer and McCune and Grace books very helpful and I don't use Canoco or PC-ord very much. Two web reference that I have also found helpful are: http://ordination.okstate.edu/index.html and http://ecology.msu.montana.edu/labdsv/R/ Hope this helps, Michael > Thanks! > Howie Neufeld > > -- > Dr. Howard S. Neufeld, Professor > Department of Biology > 572 Rivers Street > Appalachian State University > Boone, NC 28608 > > email: [email protected] > departmental webpage: http://www.biology.appstate.edu/faculty/neufeldhs.htm > personal webpage: http://www.appstate.edu/~neufeldhs/index.html > > Tel: 828-262-2683 > Fax: 828-262-2127 > -- Michael Denslow I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON] Department of Biology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina U.S.A. -- AND -- Communications Manager Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections sernec.org 36.214177, -81.681480 +/- 3103 meters
