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An Overview of Statistical Analysis of Biological Community Data

Hendrickson, JA
Research associate and assistant curator, Division of Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Horwitz, RJ
Research associate and assistant curator, Division of Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.


Pages: 8    Published: Jan 1984


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Abstract

The types of questions usually asked of community data are categorized and used to structure the choice of analyses for any given study. Comments are offered on the relative suitability of various analyses for data acquired in well-designed studies.


Keywords:
multivariate analyses, principal components, canonical correlations, cluster analysis, ordination, regression, binary data, multinomial data

Paper ID: STP30256S
Committee/Subcommittee: D19.02
DOI: 10.1520/STP30256S
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