Dear Lists, At several stations distributed regularly in space[1], we sampled repeatedly (4 times) the abundance of organisms and measured environmental parameters. I now want to compare the spatial distribution of various species (and test wether they differ or not), or to compare the distribution of a particular organism with the distribution of some environmental variable. Syrjala's test[2] seems to be appropriate for such comparisons. The hamming distance is also used (but it is not associated with a test). However, as far as I understand it, Syrjala's test only compares the distribution gathered during one sampling event, while I have four successive repeats and: - I am interested in comparing if, on average, the distributions are the same - I would prefer to keep the information regarding the variability of the abundances in time, rather than just comparing the means, since the abundances are quite variable. Therefore I have two questions for all the knowledgeable R users on these lists: - Is there a package in which Syrjala's test is implemented for R? - Is there another way (a better way) to test for such differences? Thank you very much in advance for your help. [1] http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/research_tetiaroa.html [2] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2120/is_n1_v77/ai_18066337/pg_7 Jean-Olivier Irisson --- UMR 5244 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, 52 av Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France +336 21 05 19 90 http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/
milton ruser
2008-Feb-09 21:39 UTC
[R] [R-sig-Geo] Comparing spatial point patterns - Syrjala test
Dear Jean, I have no idea of how to solve this issue, but I suggest you write to the authors of spatstat package. I think they could help you very much. Another thing is that there was a threhead on this many times ago. May be that Alan Swanson cold also help you. http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/51226.html Kind regards, miltinho On 2/9/08, jiho <jo.irisson@gmail.com> wrote:> > Dear Lists, > > At several stations distributed regularly in space[1], we sampled > repeatedly (4 times) the abundance of organisms and measured > environmental parameters. I now want to compare the spatial > distribution of various species (and test wether they differ or not), > or to compare the distribution of a particular organism with the > distribution of some environmental variable. > Syrjala's test[2] seems to be appropriate for such comparisons. The > hamming distance is also used (but it is not associated with a test). > However, as far as I understand it, Syrjala's test only compares the > distribution gathered during one sampling event, while I have four > successive repeats and: > - I am interested in comparing if, on average, the distributions are > the same > - I would prefer to keep the information regarding the variability of > the abundances in time, rather than just comparing the means, since > the abundances are quite variable. > > Therefore I have two questions for all the knowledgeable R users on > these lists: > - Is there a package in which Syrjala's test is implemented for R? > - Is there another way (a better way) to test for such differences? > > Thank you very much in advance for your help. > > [1] http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/research_tetiaroa.html > [2] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2120/is_n1_v77/ai_18066337/pg_7 > > Jean-Olivier Irisson > --- > UMR 5244 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, 52 av Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France > +336 21 05 19 90 > http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/ > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]