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Applied Multivariate Statistics for Ecological Data (ECO 632)
Schedule
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The administration of this course and all relevant polices are described in detail in the course syllabus. This page provides a schedule for lectures, including links to all lecture handouts (slides and notes) and required journal readings.
| No. | Topic | Readings |
Part 1: Working with multivariate data |
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| 1 | What is multivariate statistics? [pdf] | Chapter 1 |
| 2 | Data screening [pdf] | McCune and Grace (2002: chapter 7); McCune and Grace (2002: chapter 9) |
| 3 | Ecological distance [pdf] |
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| Part 2: Working with groups | ||
| 4 | Finding groups -- cluster analysis [pdf1][pdf2] | Chapter 3 |
| 5 | Testing groups -- multi-response permutation procedure (MRPP), analysis of group similarities (ANOSIM), and Mantel's test (MANTEL) [pdf] | McCune and Grace (2002: chapters 24); McCune and Grace (2002: chapter 27) |
| 6 | Discrimination among groups -- discriminant analysis (DA) [pdf1], classification tree analysis (CART) and indicator species analysis (ISA) [pdf2] | Chapter 4; De'ath and Fabricius (2000); De'ath (2007) |
| Part 3: Working with gradients | ||
| 7 | Unconstrained ordination -- pincipal components analysis (PCA)[pdf1], correspondence analysis (CA/DCA) and multidimensional scaling (MDS/NMDS) [pdf2] | Chapter 2 |
| 8 | Constrained ordination -- redundancy analysis (RDA), constrained analysis of principal coordinates (CAP), and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) [pdf1][pdf2] | Chapter 5; Palmer (1993); Ter Braak (1986); Legendre and Gallagher (2001); De'ath (2002) |
| 9 | Variance partitioning (decomposition) [pdf] | Cushman and McGarigal (2002) |
| Part 4: Synthesis and summary | ||
| 10 | Summary and comparison of techniques [pdf] | Chapter 6; Johnson (1981); Rextad et al (1988); Ramette (2007) |
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Kevin McGarigal
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts
304 Holdsworth Natural Resources Center
Box 34210, Amherst, MA 01003
Fax: (413) 545-4358; Phone: (413) 577-0655
Email: mcgarigalk@eco.umass.edu