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Workshop 15: Q-mode MVA
Murray Logan
August 6, 2016
Table of contents
1 Q-mode Inference testing 13 2 Worked Examples 19
0.1. R-mode analyses
- preserve euclidean (PCA/RDA) or χ2 (CA/CCA) distances
- based on either correlation or covariance of variables
– data restricted by assumptions
0.2. Q-mode analyses
- based on object similarity
- unrestricted choice of similarity/distance matrix
– filter data to comply
- resulting scores not independent
0.3. Dissimilarity
Sp1 Sp2 Sp3 Sp4 Site1 2 5 Site2 13 7 10 5 Site3 9 5 55 93 Site4 10 6 76 81 Site5 2 6
0.4. Distance measures
- Euclidean distance
djk = √∑ (yji − yki)2
> library(vegan) > vegdist(Y,method="euclidean")
Site1 Site2 Site3 Site4 Site2 16.431677 Site3 104.129727 98.939375 Site4 107.944430 100.707497 24.228083 Site5 8.306624 15.329710 105.546198 107.596468