Dissimilarity ranking
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 15:43 -0500, Steve_Friedman at nps.gov wrote:
Burak You should explore the use of non-metric multidimensional scaling. ?cmdscale
cmdscale is classical (or metric) multidimensional scaling. nMDS is in MASS:::isoMDS() or vegan's metaMDS(). G
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[R-sig-eco] Dissimilarity ranking
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Hello, I want to rank the dissimilarity of sites based on their species
composition. For example, I would like to be able to say that site A is
less similar in composition to the other sites than site B is similar to
the other sites. I could do a cluster analysis and look at which sites are
less closely clustered.
It would be even better if I could come up with a quantitative scale rather
than a relative ranking that would give a value for each site based on its
relative dissimilarity to the rest of the sites. So site A might receive a
90 out of 100, whereas site B and C might receive a 60 and a 50 indicating
the rank as well as 'relative quantity' of dissimilarity for each site.
Thanks,
Burak
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Burak K. Pekin, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Purdue University
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