Re: [R-sig-eco] Doing repeated measure manova w adonis

2014-09-30 Thread Maas, Kendra
Hi I'm interested in trying this approach with my microbiome data but I'm confused by your treatment.btwnsub file and how that relates to the other two files. could you share the dput of the treatments.fullmatrix and treatment.btwnsub? thanks Kendra -- Kendra Maas, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Researc

Re: [R-sig-eco] Package 'compositions'; Function dnorm.acomp()

2014-09-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, separ...@yahoo.com wrote: See Filzmoser et al. (2009) http://www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/forschung/SM/SM-2009-2.pdf Serge-Étienne, I'll carefully read this; have not found it in my literature surches. Filzmoser et al. (2009) wrote that "Some measures like the standard

Re: [R-sig-eco] Package 'compositions'; Function dnorm.acomp()

2014-09-30 Thread separent
Hi Rich, Filzmoser et al. (2009) wrote that "Some measures like the standard deviation (or the variance) make no statistical sense with closed data [...]". They also wrote that "If Euclidean geometry is not valid, the arithmetic mean is quite likely to be a poor estimate of the data center."

[R-sig-eco] Package 'compositions'; Function dnorm.acomp()

2014-09-30 Thread Rich Shepard
For a data set of count proportions, testing for fit to a multivariate normal distribution is done with the function dnorm.acomp() in package 'compositions'. The function's calling parameters are the data set, mean, and variance. Example data set: dput(win.acomp) structure(c(0.0667, 0.06120

[R-sig-eco] Course Halifax: Introduction to Linear mixed effects models, GLMM and MCMC with R

2014-09-30 Thread Highland Statistics Ltd
Apologies for cross-posting We would like to announce the following statistics course: Course: Introduction to Linear mixed effects models, GLMM and MCMC with R Location: Halifax, Canada Date: 19 - 23 January 2015 Remaining seats: 10 Course website: http://www.highstat.com/statscourse.