linearPred: calculation of stability using linear prediction model.

In betaStability: Quantify the Compositional Stability of Each Community Based on a Single Sampling Event

calculation of stability using linear prediction model.

Description

This function will take the diversity matrix and the environmental distance matrix as input, and calculate the stability of each site using linear model. The stability is calculated by comparing the predicted distance (based on the linear model) and the mean measured distance (based on vegdist function).

Usage

linearPred(comdist, envdist, sitenames = NULL)

Arguments

comdist	The community dissimilarity matrix
envdist	The environmental dissimilarity matrix
sitenames	The names of the site

Value

a column vector of predicted stability values for each site

Examples

library(vegan)
library(stats)
data(varespec)
data(varechem)
example.comdist <- vegdist(varespec)
example.envdist <- dist(
    BBmisc::normalize(
        varechem,
        method = "range",
        margin = 2
    ),
    method = "euclidean"
)
example.stability_LM <- linearPred(example.comdist, example.envdist)

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