Cluster Analysis using Data Distributions?
Hi everyone, I have a dataset that has plant species with the slope and distance along the transect recorded for each observed plant. There are multiple occurrences of each species. So far I have done a cluster analysis using hclust() from the vegan package after having calculated the average slope and distance for each species (so the dataset only has one record for each species). I would like to take all of the data into account and was wondering if there was a clustering method that can take into account the distribution of the data - for example, could the species be put into groups that have a similar histogram for their slope and distance data? Thanks for your help! best, Michele
Michele Tobias PhD Candidate Geography Graduate Group University of California, Davis mmtobias at ucdavis.edu http://ggg.ucdavis.edu/student/michele-m-tobias http://ucdavis.academia.edu/MicheleTobias "The purpose of R-sig-ecology is two fold. First, we want to provide a discussion forum for those analyzing ecological and environmental data with R. Second, we want to encourage R users of all ability and experience to participate so that we may grow the community of ecologists and environmental scientists that use R." https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology