Much beyond Mantel: Bringing Procrustes Association Metric to the Plant and Soil Ecologist's Toolbox.

Shared by Aïssatou Diallo • biology • 2014

This article is from PLoS ONE , volume 9 . Abstract The correlation of multivariate data is a common task in investigations of soil biology and in ecology in general. Procrustes analysis and the Mantel test are two approaches that often meet this objective and are considered analogous in many situations especially when used as a statistical test to assess the statistical significance between multivariate data tables. Here we call the attention of ecologists to the advantages of a less familiar application of the Procrustean framework, namely the Procrustean association metric (a vector of Proc