Re: [R] Confusion metaMDS and CA

2009-09-04 Thread swertie
Thank you very much for those useful informations. I've been reading some papers and actually different people will use different ordination methods also if the studies are very alike. So I will keep metaMDS for the moment and see if my results are interpretable :) -- View this message in contex

Re: [R] Confusion metaMDS and CA

2009-09-04 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 03:36 -0700, swertie wrote: > Thank you very much. I am just concerned because I wonder if I used the best > method. I have presence/absence data. With isoMDS I can specify > "Bray-Curtis" distance method, which is adequate, but I was not sure of the > method used by metaMDS.

Re: [R] Confusion metaMDS and CA

2009-09-04 Thread swertie
Thank you very much. I am just concerned because I wonder if I used the best method. I have presence/absence data. With isoMDS I can specify "Bray-Curtis" distance method, which is adequate, but I was not sure of the method used by metaMDS. I think that it is Euclidian distance. Can I use it for p

Re: [R] Confusion metaMDS and CA

2009-09-04 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 04:49 -0700, swertie wrote: > Hello, I read a lot about ordination, but I am still confused... I have data > on species presence/absence for 8 different sites and I would like to > represent my species and the sites on an ordination plot to see if some > species are associated

[R] Confusion metaMDS and CA

2009-09-03 Thread swertie
Hello, I read a lot about ordination, but I am still confused... I have data on species presence/absence for 8 different sites and I would like to represent my species and the sites on an ordination plot to see if some species are associated with specific sites. I used metaMDS function, which disp