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Features Not Available in Major Statistical Packages
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User's Booklet

• 3D ordination
• 3D animated GIFs for PowerPoint or websites
• Two-way cluster dendrogram
• Ordered main matrix (ordered by ordinations scores)
• Scatterplot matix
• Simple scatterplot
• Dominance-diversity curves and frequency-abundance plots
• Frequency distributions (discrete, continuous, density estimation with kernel smoothers)
• Plexus overlay on ordinations

• Translate successional vectors to origin (starburst plot)
• Translate vectors to origin and set to unit length
• PCA biplot vectors (calculate and graph distance-based biplot for species or other variables)
• Save graphs as jpeg
• Increased maximum number of symbol types or colors on a single graph from 15 to 32
• Set graphic resolution as dpi or % of view on screen for Save and Copy
• Option to place tick marks inside, outside, or across axes
• Quadrant-sensitive labeling of points in ordinations (smarter positioning of point labels)
• Optional arrowheads and arrowhead sizes on biplots, joint plots, and successional vectors
• Envelopes on side scatterplots improved with Gaussian kernel smoother

• Permutation-based MANOVA (PerMANOVA) with one-way, factorial, nested, and blocked designs
• Two-way cluster analysis
• Current Profile to display most important summary features of your data set
• Smoothed univariate frequency distributions calculated with density estimation techniques
• Species associations based on 2 x 2 contingency tables

• Helps you to decide how to analyze your data, based on a decision tree.
• Also usable as a self teaching tool.

• Import/export Excel *.xls files
• Simultaneous adjustment of main and second matrices (for example, simultaneous deletion of rows from both matrices)
• Filter rows by criterion variable in main or second matrix
• Allow direct modifications of second matrix
• Longer path names for file
• Append matrices (append rows and match columns)

• Randomization tests for PCA
• Cluster analysis from distance matrix directly
• Mantel test based on rank correlation or rank-transformed distance matrix
• Write distance matrix to spreadsheet or text file; full matrix or pairwise list
• Save NMS scores to text file, spreadsheet, or result file
• Option to break down row and column summaries by a variable in the second matrix

• Reflect / rotate ordinations
• Overlay side graph fit envelope
• Dendrograms for cluster analysis
• Species-area curves
• Confidence bands in species-area curves
• Scree plot in NMS

• Import/export Excel *.xls and Excel 2007 *.xlsx files
• Export scores to spreadsheet
• Add scores to second matrix
• Import / export database format

• CCA
• NMS Autopilot mode (NMDS)
• NMS Predictive-mode (NMDS)
• PerMANOVA
• Indicator species analysis (Dufrêne & Legendre)
• DCA (DECORANA)
• TWINSPAN
• Two-way cluster analysis (biclustering)
• MRPP
• Blocked MRPP
• Species-area curves
• Diversity indices
• Species lists
• Mantel test
• Various rotation methods
• 3-D ordination graphics
• Publication-quality dendrograms
• Ordination overlay methods:
  Quantitative, grid, joint plot, biplot, and
  succesional vector, all with symbol and color coding
• Bray-Curtis (Polar) ordination
• City-block distance measures
• Tree data summaries
• Species ordinations for NMS, BC, PCA
• Beals smoothing
• Species list broken down by groups
• Terminology tailored to ecology

• Excellent ecology teaching aide
• 32,000 x 32,000 data sets with some limitations
• 32-bit Windows/NT
• Edit matrix spreadsheets