Model-based approaches to unconstrained ordination

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 399-411

  Hui, Francis K C ^a,b   Taskinen, Sara ^c   Pledger, Shirley ^d   Foster, Scott D ^b   Warton, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; Latent variable model; Mixture model; Multivariate analysis; Non metric multidimensional scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926654561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12236     Document Type: Article

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