[MORPHMET] Mahalanobis extraction solved!

2015-05-06 Thread oliverhooker
Thank you Carmelo and David for your answers. I ran the outliers test as recommended by David and then copied the Mahalanobis distance (squared, which are easy enough to convert back) along with the individuals ID and pasted them directly in to excel. Best wishes, Oliver Hooker PR~Statistics

[MORPHMET] Extracting Individual Mahalanobis Distances

2015-05-04 Thread oliverhooker
I am currently trying to test the degree of difference (measured as a Mahalanobis distance) between two groups. To give some background I have 2 groups of fish that differ in their life history strategy (groups A and B), these two groups have then been exposed to different conditions to induce

RE: [MORPHMET] PC Ranks in Evolutionary PCA

2015-03-30 Thread oliverhooker
Hi Alex, If you want to remove the effect of size on shape that is caused by ontogenetic allometry (differences in shape due to age/size per-say) you can regress the Procrustes coordinates of your samples on the centroid size and then use the residuals. Hope this helps, Oliver Hooker