From noreply at r-forge.r-project.org Thu May 15 11:28:48 2014 From: noreply at r-forge.r-project.org (noreply at r-forge.r-project.org) Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:28:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Vegan-commits] r2870 - pkg/vegan/man Message-ID: <20140515092848.BEDB818734E@r-forge.r-project.org> Author: jarioksa Date: 2014-05-15 11:28:48 +0200 (Thu, 15 May 2014) New Revision: 2870 Modified: pkg/vegan/man/vegdist.Rd Log: Veech has re-invented Raup-Crick with equal sampling probabilities Modified: pkg/vegan/man/vegdist.Rd =================================================================== --- pkg/vegan/man/vegdist.Rd 2014-04-21 18:41:15 UTC (rev 2869) +++ pkg/vegan/man/vegdist.Rd 2014-05-15 09:28:48 UTC (rev 2870) @@ -187,7 +187,10 @@ and Crick originally suggested that sampling probabilities should be proportional to species frequencies (Chase et al. 2011). A simulation approach with unequal species sampling probabilities is implemented in - \code{\link{raupcrick}} function following Chase et al. (2011). + \code{\link{raupcrick}} function following Chase et al. (2011). The + index can be also used for transposed data to give a probabilistic + dissimilarity index of species co-occurrence (identical to Veech + 2013). Chao index tries to take into account the number of unseen species pairs, similarly as in \code{method = "chao"} in @@ -286,6 +289,9 @@ classification problems. In: P.W.Murphy (ed.), \emph{Progress in Soil Zoology}, 43--50. Butterworths. + Veech, J. A. (2013). A probabilistic model for analysing species + co-occurrence. \emph{Global Ecology and Biogeography} 22, 252--260. + Wolda, H. (1981). Similarity indices, sample size and diversity. \emph{Oecologia} 50, 296--302. }