Gavin,
Thank you very much for the explanation .... it is very assuring ..... I knew
that the sign of the eigenvectors can flip but i was puzzled that always PCA
and CA came one way and DCA the other way - i mean flipped every time i've run
the analysis .... the idea was to use different ordinations to see which might
explain the best the vegetation assemblages and their correlation with the
unsupervised classification i've done for the locations. For now DCA is very
promising in spite of the criticism some ecologists have against it. So you are
right - i don't need all of them - but i wanted to do all so if i choose one
and i am asked why i didn't do some other one - i can have an answer ready ;-)
Again, thanks,
Monica> Subject: Re: [R] Correspondence and detrended correspondence analysis>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: r-help@r-project.org> Date:
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:18:25 +0100> > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 18:45 +0000, Monica
Pisica wrote:> > Hi,> > > > I hope someone knows the answer to this or has a
real good reference> > about it (I am using Legendre & Legendre, Numerical
Ecology, 1998)....> > My data is a data.frame with locations as rows and
vegetation> > assemblages / species as columns. I've done a PCA, a
correspondance> > analysis (CA) using ca in ca package and a detrended
correspondance> > analysis (DCA) using decorana from vegan package. As far as
i> > understand what i've done .... the relationships between vegetation> >
categories and locations should be similar in all 3 analysis, although> > the
'arch' in locations / sites seen in the CA plot should be flatten> > out by the
DCA - which it is!.> > > > My problem is that the locations / sites!
are flipped in the DCA plot> > versus PCA or CA plots (locations with
positive coordinates now have> > negative coordinates in DCA versus CA or PCA),
although the vegetation> > categories keep same relationships between them in
all three plots -> > which is expected. If some code is required i can provide
it but i> > didn't want to clutter the message too much. But i am providing
the> > resulting plots in case they will make my problem clearer.> > The sign
of the eigenvectors (axis scores) is not defined, just the> magnitude; using
the same software on different machines may produce> "flipped". Furthermore,
the same analysis, PCA say, done using different> software but on the same
machine may not have the same sign, i.e. be> flipped, depending on algorithm
used etc.> > There is nothing wrong here. You'd be better off asking yourself
which> is the appropriate technique to fit for your data rather than fitting>
them all...> > HTH> > G> > > > > PCA plot:> > ftp://stpfiles.er.!
usgs.gov/Monica/R_Data/pca_veg_lidarclass_phase2.pdf> > CA plot:> > ft
p://stpfiles.er.usgs.gov/Monica/R_Data/corresp_anal_phase2.pdf> > DCA plot:> >
ftp://stpfiles.er.usgs.gov/Monica/R_Data/detrend_corresp_anal_phase2.pdf> > DCA
how i would expect it:> >
ftp://stpfiles.er.usgs.gov/Monica/R_Data/detrend_corresp_anal_phase2_a.pdf> > >
> Any thoughts on this will be very much appreciated,> > > > Monica> > > > > >
_________________________________________________________________> > > > > >
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