Re: [R-sig-eco] Error with raup distance in metaMDS

2011-03-27 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 26/03/11 17:35 PM, Manuel Spínola mspinol...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list members, I got an error message working with Raup–Crick distance in metaMDS. flora.mds = metaMDS(indicadora, distance = raup, trace = FALSE, zerodist = ignore) Error in isoMDS(dist, k = k, trace = isotrace) :

Re: [R-sig-eco] [POSIBLE SPAM] Re: Error with raup distance in metaMDS

2011-03-27 Thread Manuel Spínola
Thank you very much Jari. Is the Raup--Crick dissimilarity metric the only option for a presence/absence data in vegdist or using binary = T could I use any other dissimilarity metric? Best, Manuel On 27/03/2011 09:07 a.m., Jari Oksanen wrote: On 26/03/11 17:35 PM, Manuel

Re: [R-sig-eco] question about appropriate model for abundance studies

2011-03-27 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:14 +0100, Sacha Viquerat wrote: hello! I did a count survey on a tropical fish species! Well, I didnt do it, Im just helping at the statistics-stage. We recorded some water parameters alogside each catch, such as no3, no2, po4 etc. as the data are count data (and

Re: [R-sig-eco] question about appropriate model for abundance studies

2011-03-27 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 20:18 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote: snip / I think you are confusing the error structure with the model or systematic structure? Yes, Poisson errors are expected with count abundance data, or if there is more dispersion than expected under the Poisson, then a negative

[R-sig-eco] logistic regression, calculating -LogLikelihood Values

2011-03-27 Thread kgorman
Dear All, I am running very simple logistic regression in R using generalized linear models (glm) where I am trying to find the best structural size predictor of gender in birds. When I run this analysis in R I receive AIC values, which is good since I am using AIC model selection in this