Primer-E Primer
Plymouth Routines In Multivariate Ecological Research is a statistical package that is a collection of specialist univariate, multivariate, and graphical routines for analyzing species sampling data for community ecology. Types of data analyzed are typically species abundance, biomass, presence/absence, and percent area cover, among others. It is primarily used in the scientific community for ecological and environmental studies.
Multivariate routines include:
- grouping
- sorting
- principal component identification
- hypothesis testing
- sample discrimination
- trend correlation
- comparisons
- diversity, dominance, and distribution calculating
- Permutational multivariate analysis of variance