Giving meaningful interpretation to ordination axes: Assessing loading significance in principal component analysis

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2347-2363

  Peres Neto, Pedro R ^a,b   Jackson, Donald A ^a   Somers, Keith M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Eigenvector coefficients; Multivariate analysis; Numerical ecology; Power; Randomization

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; ORDINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345016307     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/00-0634     Document Type: Article

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