Re: [ECOLOG-L] Biplot on PCA

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Hewitt
$rotation screeplot(my.pca, npcs=3, type=lines) biplot(my.pca) In the R console... ?read.table -- getting the data into a data.frame ?prcomp OR ?princomp -- for the PCA (see 'center' and 'scale' options) ?biplot -- for the biplot ?screeplot -- for a scree plot HTH, Dave Hewitt

Re: [ECOLOG-L] correspondence and detrended correspondence analysis

2008-04-21 Thread Dave Hewitt
-sig-ecology listserv that was just announced. Join us: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology -- Dave Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (OR) --and-- Student VIMS, College of William Mary (VA) http://www.vims.edu/fish

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology in Canada?

2008-02-24 Thread Dave Hewitt
Is there the equivalent of the ESA in Canada, would anyone know, please? And any references for the history of ecology as it developed in Canada? CSEE might be in the ballpark -- http://ecoevo.ca/en/index.htm Dave Hewitt VIMS, Gloucester, VA USA

Re: Data set with many many zeros..... Help?

2008-01-14 Thread Dave Hewitt
in to a situation where you can go back and use repeated samples to check on detectability, you're in the world of occupancy models. For an intro, see: http://www.uvm.edu/envnr/vtcfwru/spreadsheets/occupancy/occupancy.htm Dave Hewitt VIMS, Gloucester Point, VA At 01:58 PM 1/14/2008 +0100, you wrote

Re: Data set with many many zeros..... Help?

2008-01-13 Thread Dave Hewitt
in getting a good model, not testing. I've always found Ben Bolker's flow chart for models helpful - pg. 397 (http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/emdbook/). Dave Hewitt VIMS, Gloucester Point, VA At 03:38 PM 1/12/2008 -0400, you wrote: Hello Ecolog - I was wondering if anyone had any advice

Re: stats question: binomial CI, finite population

2007-12-17 Thread Dave Hewitt
Georgia Carrollton, GA 30118-3100 Phone: 678-839-4061 Fax: 678-839-4071 http://www.westga.edu/~pnovackg ~ Dave Hewitt VIMS, Gloucester Point, VA

Re: Christianity survey

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Hewitt
in with the lowest percentages. Figure 2 (pg. 5) is pretty interesting... only 50-64% of faculty at specifically religious schools express strong spirituality. Huh? Dave Hewitt At 11:04 PM 8/21/2007 -0500, Malcolm McCallum wrote: Check out the Chronicle of Higher Education, seems like

Re: Carbon Calculator (and very interesting ocean carbon trials!)

2007-08-14 Thread Dave Hewitt
appreciated. Thanks Sara E. Viernum Clifford J. Webb All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental. K. Vonnegut - Dave Hewitt Fisheries Science/Crustacean Ecology Virginia Institute of Marine Science College of William