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Adonis for significance of clusteredness from hclust (vegan package)

Dear Ansley,

I cannot answer your question, I hope someone else will answer. I'd 
rather point out a problem in your approach. Statistical tests were 
developed for testing difference between a priori groups, thus estimated 
Type I error rate is valid only for this situation. When you calculates 
Type I error rate for comparison of groups created by cluster analysis 
of the SAME data, the calculated error rate will be lower than the valid 
error rate. So you cannot use the term "significant" in this situation.

Sorry for making you sadden by this information.

Zoltan

2016.10.03. 21:52 keltez?ssel, Ansley Silva ?rta: