Dear R members,

I understand the main principles why R-Vegan does not provide p-values for the 
biplot scores and/or canonical coefficients (see also post on stackoverflow).

(i) We can obtain linear regression statistics and refit an ordination result 
as multiple response linear model (lm, see as.mlm.cca). This regression ignores 
residual unconstrained variation in the data. However, constrained ordination 
is based on iteration with regression. My question is now, how does ordination 
considers this unconstrained variation? By the unimodal distribution of the 
data (cca). By the selected distance matrix (Chi, Euclidian)? Or is the 
difference based on the fact, that ordination is a multivariate analyses?

(ii)  I think question (i) is the reason why I get difference between biplot 
scores (integral of rda) and scores() (equivalent of regression coefficients)
scores(PFcompUZL_h_rda, choices = 1:4, display = "bp", scaling = 0)
scores(PFcompUZL_h_rda)

Many thanks for your answer
Sibylle





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