Much beyond Mantel: bringing Procrustes association metric to the plant and soil ecologist's toolbox.

The correlation of multivariate data is a common task in investigations of soil biology and in ecology in general. Procrustes analysis and the Mantel test are two approaches that often meet this objective and are considered analogous in many situations especially when used as a statistical test to a...

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Main Authors: Francy Junio Gonçalves Lisboa, Pedro R Peres-Neto, Guilherme Montandon Chaer, Ederson da Conceição Jesus, Ruth Joy Mitchell, Stephen James Chapman, Ricardo Luis Louro Berbara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24971901/?tool=EBI