-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: bootstrap Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Guillaume COLOMBEAU <[email protected]> To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]>
Hi Yu qing, you can use PAST (Paleontological STatistics, from O Hammer) http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/download.html the cluster analysis of this freeware contains a bootstrapping option (select your data, go to multivare stat, cluster analysis, the option appears in the graphic window and let you choose how many boots you wish). the bootstrap analysis will give you the "strength" of each "node" in the tree (sorry, i'm not sure of my english mathematical translation) : if nodes are too weak, corresponding parts of the tree may be resulting from alea best wishes guillaume 2009/3/24 morphmet <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: bootstrap Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:49:14 -0700 (PDT) From: 俞青 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Dear Morphometricians I conducted a geometric morphometric analysis of tooth .I want to do a cluster analysis(ntsyspc2.1) using UPGMA with the Euclidean distance as distance measure. Should I do a Bootstrap analysis and what software can be applied to do it generally? Thanks Yu qing dentist Department of Prosthodontics, Stomatolgy hospital affiliated to medical school, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, China. Phone:+ 86 83620261 -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
