| (Note: CANOCO features are from the CANOCO website) |
PC-ORD
6 |
CANOCO
4.5 |
| Price |
| Single user license |
$299.00 |
$678.00 |
| Additional licenses |
$100.00 |
$428.00 |
| Student |
$199 |
$368.00 |
| Analysis
Size Limits |
| Main matrix, rows |
32,000 |
25,000 |
| Main matrix, columns |
32,000 |
5,000 |
| Main matrix, nonzero items |
1,024,000,000 |
750,000 |
| Graphics
Size Limits |
| Sample units |
32,000 |
25,000 |
| Species |
32,000 |
500 |
| Environmental variables |
32,000 |
1000 |
| Graphics |
| Publication-quality graphics |
Yes |
Yes |
| Biplot |
Yes |
Yes |
| Joint Plot |
Yes |
Yes |
| Triplot |
Yes |
Yes |
| Vector Overlay |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quantitative Overlay |
Yes |
Yes |
| Rotation |
Yes |
No |
| Grid overlay |
Yes |
No |
| Successional vectors |
Yes |
No |
| Translated successional vectors to origin |
Yes |
No |
| 3D Ordination |
Yes |
No |
| 3D Animation GIF |
Yes |
No |
| Two-way cluster dendrogram |
Yes |
No |
| Ordered main matrix |
Yes |
No |
| Dominance curves |
Yes |
No |
| Distributions (discrete and continuous) |
Yes |
No |
| Boxplots |
Yes |
No |
| Scatterplot matrix |
Yes |
No |
| Contouring quantiative overlays |
Yes |
Yes |
| Transformations |
| Monotonic transformations |
Yes |
? |
| Relativizations |
Yes |
? |
| Multiply by or add a constant |
Yes |
No |
| Beals smoothing |
Yes |
No |
| Matrix
Operations |
| Transpose |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multiply by secondary matrix |
Yes |
No |
| Delete columns or rows |
Yes |
Yes |
| Delete rows or columns with < N non-zero values |
Yes |
No |
| Rows filtering by matrix variable |
Yes |
No |
| Shuffle data |
Yes |
No |
| Weighted average |
Yes |
No |
| Import/Export
File Formats |
| Excel (*.xls) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Spreadsheet (*.wk1) |
Yes |
Yes |
| PC-ORD compact |
Yes |
No |
| Database |
Yes |
No |
| Cornell condensed |
Yes |
Yes |
| Cornell full format |
No |
Yes |
| Comma-separated values (*.csv) |
Yes |
No |
| Ordination |
| Bray-Curtis (Polar) Ordination |
Yes |
No |
| Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) |
Yes |
Yes |
| CCA with covariables |
No |
Yes |
| Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA, DECORANA) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMS = NMDS = NMMDS) |
Yes |
No |
| Principal Components Analysis (PCA) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Reciprocal Averaging (Correspondence Analysis = CA = RA) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Weighted Averaging |
Yes |
No |
| Redundancy Analysis (RDA) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Simple randomization tests |
Yes |
Yes |
| Randomization tests for special designs |
No |
Yes |
| Forward selection of environmental variables |
No |
Yes |
| Correlation between ordination and original distances |
Yes |
Yes |
| Principal Coordinates (PCoA) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Discriminant Analysis |
No |
Yes |
| Distance
Measures |
| Sorensen Distance (= Bray & Curtis) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Relative Sorensen Distance |
Yes |
? |
| Jaccard Distance |
Yes |
Yes |
| Euclidean (Pythagorean) Distance |
Yes |
Yes |
| Relativized Euclidean Distance |
Yes |
Yes |
| Correlation |
Yes |
Yes |
| Chi-squared Distance |
Yes |
Yes |
| Squared Euclidean Distance |
Yes |
? |
| Summary
Statistics |
| Diversity Indices |
Yes |
No |
| Outlier Analysis |
Yes |
No |
| Write Distance Matrix |
Yes |
? |
| Seek
Groups |
| TWINSPAN |
Yes |
No |
| Cluster Analysis |
Yes |
No |
| Two-way Cluster Analysis |
Yes |
No |
| Indicator Species Analysis |
Yes |
No |
| Blocked Indicator Species Analysis |
Yes |
No |
| Compare
Groups |
| Multi-Response Permutation Procedures (MRPP) |
Yes |
No |
| Mantel Test |
Yes |
No |
| Partial Mantel Test |
Yes |
No |
| Species lists |
Yes |
No |
| Species-area Curves |
Yes |
No |
| PerMANOVA |
Yes |
No |
| SumF |
Yes |
No |
