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Using GLMs or GLMMs for diversity metrics?

Highland Statistics Ltd 
Hello Alana,

Instead of using a diversity index, why not focus on the original 
species using a multivariate GLMM? You can use a generalised linear 
latent variable model (GLLVM) for this. That is a more useful analysis 
as compared to using 4 different diversity indices (which, by the way, 
are all derived from the same data, and that is a problem on itself).

You can find information of GLLVM here:

https://jenniniku.github.io/gllvm/articles/vignette1.html


Or you can join one of our upcoming online workshops on GLLVM:

https://www.highstat.com/Courses/Flyers/Flyer2024_01_SpatTempGLM.pdf

This workshop is in the EU time zone, but we are planning the same 
workshop in the 9 December week in the EST time zone.

The setup of the random effects structure and covariates were already 
discussed by Michael Zyphur, and can be applied in GLLVM as well.

Kind regards,

Alain

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