The ecodist package for dissimilarity-based analysis of ecological data

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1-19

  Goslee, Sarah C ^a   Urban, Dean L ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Dissimilarity; Ecodist; Mantel test; R; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649025929     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v022.i07     Document Type: Article

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