On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > There's a fair bit of literature on Mantel-based path analysis, and > other similar dissimilarity-based approaches. SEM can be used with > composition as well, although not (I think) with the intermediate step > of calculating dissimilarities. > > Besides journal articles employing those techniques, I like both of these: > > J. B. Grace, Structural Equation Modeling and Natural Systems, > Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006. > > B. Shipley, Cause and Correlation in Biology: A User’s Guide to Path > Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference, Cambridge > University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000.
I recently stumbled on a great book on path modelling using PLS (with R) that is freely downloadable at http://is.gd/BxqIEL Ivailo -- UBUNTU: a person is a person through other persons. _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
