Re: [R-sig-eco] What statistical analysis should I take??

2011-01-12 Thread Dunbar, Michael J.
Dear Yong The simplest approach would be to calculate a phi value for each stream, and then apply conventional anova. There is some background on phi here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_size_%28grain_size%29 There is an example of a simple algorithm to calculate phi from discrete

Re: [R-sig-eco] multivariate regression tree analysis with mvpart - De'Ath's example

2011-01-12 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 20:02 -0800, Mike Marsh wrote: All, I am trying to replicate figure 2 in Glenn De'Ath's 2002 report, Ecology 83:1105-1117 The figure caption says that data were spes standardized andsite standardized to the same mean, and that euclidean distance was usedin the

[R-sig-eco] Transformation of the data.

2011-01-12 Thread Yong Zhang
Dear all, As you know, before the ANOVA or t-test, we should test the normality of our data. Sometimes the transformation of our data is necessary, now I have a question, my data contains both positive and negative( such as 1, 2, -8, -5). So, which kind of transformation should I take?

[R-sig-eco] different symbols to NMDS graph: it works PARTIALLY!??!?

2011-01-12 Thread cristabel.duran
Dear list, I have a problem adding points with different symbols to my NMDS ordination graph. I performed a NMDS ordination with this vegan function (metaMSD) as follow: metaf - metaMDS(spp, distance = bray, k = 3, trymax = 1000, wascores = T, autotrasform = F, shrink=T, noshare = 1)