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My objective is to look at differences in two species of fish from morphometric measurements. My morphometric measurements are head length, eye diameter, snout length, and measurements from tail to each fin. I want to use discrimanant function analyis to determine if there are differences between the two species. I am familiar with R but new to discrimannt function anal...

...Gastón. I just read a question, made by Walter Durka, about a nonparametric discriminant analysis. It wasn´t any answer, and I was wondering if at this moment there is one. I have the same problem as W. Durka. I´m trying to classify and to cross-validate samples of three tunicates species based on morphometric data and to identify the variables that best discriminate between species. Thanks for help. Kind regards! Gaston Alurralde -- *[ GASTÓN ]* * * [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello to all R users, I use R for a year now and am dealing with geometric morphometrics of deer skulls. Yes, I am a biologist and my math skills are just beginning to brush up. To cut to the chase... I have two groups in my data (males and females) and my data is in a simple vector form. Now I need a bootstrap test for this value szc1 <- ((mean(maleCent)-mean(femaCent))^ 2)/(...

...quot; into a data.frame' message when I try. I have used as.matrix and can write to a file this way, but as a full matrix. The reason I only want the lower half is that I've been doing some Mantel correlations with distance matrices (of Procrustes distances) generated by other (geometric morphometric) software that are in this format. However, I'm needing to use an alternative such as R to calculate distance matrices of Fourier coefficients which the other software can't do. So far, the Mantel correlations calculated from these two matrices (with R and also another software (Mantel f...

Hi all, i purchased a copy of the book Morphometrics with R by Springer. at the end of each chapter there are exercises to train what you just read and (hope) learned... so i have this problem: Define a hypothetical data frame containing five measurments normally distributed(size,head,pectoral,area,weight) for four individuals (named ind1,...

Hello, I've got a small dataset on box turtle shell measurements that I would like to perform a detrended correspondence analysis on. I thought that it would be interesting to examine the morphometrics for each species in the area of overlap and in areas where neither species occurs.  I've taken a look at the dune and dune.env datasets in vegan. Using the str() command gives me  > str(dune) 'data.frame':   20 obs. of  30 variables:  $ Belper: num  3 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 ...  $ Em...

Dear R-users, I've spent most of the day reading R documentation at length but couldn't find something perhaps obvious. I have a dataset made of 3 morphometric variables for a series of watershed [log(slope); log(drainage_area); distance_to_outlet] My aim is to predict the value of log(slope) for pairs of [drainage_area; distance_to_outlet] (sounds like a plain linear model fitting, right, nothing too fancy there). In the literature, the standard proce...

I am a relative novice with R and am having some difficulty using 'clusplot' (package Cluster). I have performed PCA analysis (using vegan) on a large set of morphometric measurements and revealed up to 4 principal components. To examine the grouping of the data I have used PAM followed by clusplot to visualise the clusters. My problem is that I would like to see the clusters plotted on the PC2 and PC3 axes but cannot find a way to configure clusplot to do this. T...

CRAN (and crantastic) updates this week New packages ------------ * disclapmix (0.1) Maintainer: Mikkel Meyer Andersen Author(s): Mikkel Meyer Andersen and Poul Svante Eriksen License: GPL-2 http://crantastic.org/packages/disclapmix disclapmix makes inference in a mixture of Discrete Laplace distributions using the EM algorithm. * EstSimPDMP (1.1) Maintainer: Unknown Author(s):

Hello. I have been browsing the R- manual and not seen any direct implementation of Factor analysis. Is there anyone out there who has run Factor Analysis with R? Thanks Michael -- Michael Preminger Forsker / Research Scientist Avdeling for journalistikk, bibliotek- og informasjonsfag / Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science H?gskolen i Oslo / Oslo College