How important is to have a balanced design for adonis?
Hi Gian, the classical PERMANOVA have poor results with unbalanced design (Anderson and Walsh, 2013) and a solution was proposed by Anderson et al. (2017) to handle it. However I do not know if it is implemented any software. Anderson, M.J. and Walsh, D.C.I. (2013) What null hypothesis are you testing? PERMANOVA, ANOSIM and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions. Ecol. Monogr., 83, 557?574. Anderson, M.J., Walsh, D.C.I., Clarke, K.R., et al. (2017) Some solutions to the multivariate Behrens?Fisher problem for dissimilarity-based analyses. Aust. N. Z. J. Stat., 59, 57?79. Cheers, Fred On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:53 AM Gian Maria Niccol? Benucci <
gian.benucci at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello dear ecologists,
I have a question for you in here. How important is to have a balanced
design for adonis? In other words, how sensitive is adonis() to differences
in sample numbers within the groups I am comparing?
To link this question to the reality, I am trying to compare the microbial
communities of 3 groups of samples (my treatments) and they have 22, 24,
and 24 samples each. I have always thought that an even design would have
been the rule but I found several comments online that were suggesting the
opposite.
What do you think?
Thank you very much in advance,
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Gian
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