PhiCor-package: Package for calculation the Weighted Phi Coefficient of...

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Description

This package can be used to calculate the weighted phi coeficient of association using a weighting for habitats within a location, or can calculate the unweighted original version from De Cáceres and Legendre (2009) by using a weighting of one. The package also allows the group-equalised version to be run.

Details

The Phi Coefficent of association gives the habitat preference, or site fidelity of habitat sites.

The main function in PhiCor is CorIndex.all.plusP. This will calculate all phi corelation of association values and purmutate to give p-values.

The other Phi coefficent functions are useful in testing or calculating only part of the full outputs from CorIndex.all.plusP:

Weighted habitat indicator values (IndVal) can also be calculated, but these have not been tested in the way that the phi coefficent has been. The main function for calculating IndVal is Indicator.all.plusP These functions are useful in testing or calculating only part of the full outputs from Indicator.all.plusP:

The functions lookup and FilePathInTree might be used elsewhere.

Author(s)

Jordan Chetcuti

References

De Cáceres, M., & Legendre, P. (2009). Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference. Ecology, 90(12), 3566–3574.

Chetcuti, J., Kunin, W. E. & Bullock, J. M. A weighting method to improve habitat association analysis: tested on British carabids. Ecography (Cop.). 42, 1395–1404 (2019).

See Also

Useful links:


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