Increasing the value of principal components analysis for simplifying ecological data: A case study with rivers and river birds

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 487-497

  Vaughan, I P ^a   Ormerod, S J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitat data; Multicollinearity; Ordinal variables; PCA; Qualitative data; River habitat survey; Variable clustering

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ORDINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

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EID: 21244479750     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01038.x     Document Type: Article

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