- Primer-E Primer
Plymouth Routines In Multivariate Ecological Research version six (PRIMER 6). PRIMER 6 is a collection of specialist routines for analyzing species or sample abundance(biomass). It is primarily used in the scientific community for ecological and environmental studies.
Multivariate routines include:
*grouping (CLUSTER)
*sorting (MDS)
*principal component identification (PCA)
*hypothesis testing (ANOSIM)
*sample discrimination (SIMPER)
*trend correlation (BEST)
*comparisons (RELATE)
*diversity, dominance, and distribution calculatingRoutines can be resource intensive due to their non-parametric and permutation-based nature. Programed in the VB.Net environment. licensing ranges from £560 to £144 per copy.
Links
*primer homepage http://www.primer-e.com/
*primer origin http://www.pml.ac.uk/
*methods papers http://www.primer-e.com/index.htm
*other popular data analysis tools:
** [http://www.insightful.com/products/environstats/default.asp Environmental Stats for S-PLUS]
** [http://www.minitab.com/products/minitab/features/ Minitab]
** [http://www.spss.com/spss/data_analysis.htm SPSS]
** [http://www.sas.com/technologies/analytics/statistics/stat/ SAS]
** [http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/ R commander]
*Comparison of statistical packages
*List of statistical packages Categories
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