Correlation analysis of dissimilarity matrices

Plant Ecology

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 279-286

  Goslee, Sarah C ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Dissimilarity; Euclidean distance; Mantel test

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 75949087292     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9641-0     Document Type: Article

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