PC-ORD for Windows 98, 00, ME, NT, XP, and Vista
Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data
Version 5

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Comparison of PC-ORD and CANOCO

PC-ORD 5 CANOCO 4 (Note: CANOCO features are from the CANOCO website)
    Analysis Size Limits
32,000 25,000 Main matrix, rows
32,000 5,000 Main matrix, columns
1,024,000,000 750,000 Main matrix, nonzero items
    Graphics Size Limits
32,000 500 Sample units
32,000 500 Species
32,000 30 Environmental variables
    Graphics
* * Publication-quality graphics
* * Biplot
* * Joint Plot
* * Triplot
* * Vector Overlay
* * Quantitative Overlay
*   Rotation
*   Grid overlay
*   Successional vectors
*   Translated successional vectors to origin
*   3D Ordination
*   3D Animation GIF
*   Two-way cluster dendrogram
*   Ordered main matrix
*   Dominance curves
*   Distributions (discrete and continuous)
*   Scatterplot matrix
  * Contouring quantiative overlays
    Transformations
* * CEdit Monotonic transformations
* * CEdit Relativizations
*   Multiply by or add a constant
*   Beals smoothing
    Matrix Operations
* * Transpose
*   Multiply by secondary matrix
* * Delete columns or rows
*   Delete rows or columns with < N non-zero values
*   Rows filtering by matrix variable
*   Shuffle data
*   Weighted average
    Import/Export File Formats
*   Excel (*.xls)
* * Spreadsheet (*.wk1)
*   PC-ORD compact
*   Database
* * Cornell condensed
  * Cornell full format
*   Comma-separated values (*.csv)
    Ordination
*   Bray-Curtis (Polar) Ordination
* * Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA)
  * CCA with covariables
* * Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA, DECORANA)
*   Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMS = NMDS = NMMDS)
* * Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
* * Reciprocal Averaging (Correspondence Analysis = CA = RA)
*   Weighted Averaging
  * Redundancy Analysis (RDA)
* * Simple randomization tests
  * Randomization tests for special designs
  * Forward selection of environmental variables
*   Correlation between ordination and original distances
  * Principal Coordinates (PCoA)
    Distance Measures
*   Sorensen Distance (= Bray & Curtis)
*   Relative Sorensen Distance
*   Jaccard Distance
* * Euclidean (Pythagorean) Distance
* * Relativized Euclidean Distance
* * Correlation
* * Chi-squared Distance
*   Squared Euclidean Distance
    Summary Statistics
*   Tree summary tables
*   Diversity Indices
*   Outlier Analysis
*   Write Distance Matrix
    Seek Groups
*   TWINSPAN
*   Cluster Analysis
*   Two-way Cluster Analysis
*   Indicator Species Analysis
    Compare Groups
*   Multi-Response Permutation Procedures (MRPP)
*   Mantel Test
*   Species lists
*   Species-area Curves
*   PerMANOVA
    Price
$299.00 $678.00 Single user license
$100.00 $428.00 Additional licenses
$199 $368.00 Student