PERMANOVA+ workshop
Multivariate Analysis for Ecology & Other Sciences
PRESENTER: Distinguished Professor Marti J. Anderson (Massey University and PRIMER-e)
DATES: 16th – 20th January 2023
VENUE: Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
This PERMANOVA+ Workshop will be held at the Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies (IMAS), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and will take place over 5 days (Monday 16th – Friday 20th January 2023, 09:00 – 17:00 each day). The workshop is designed to give a fundamental understanding of how to analyse and gain insights from multivariate data using the software PERMANOVA+, an add-on package to PRIMER 7. Participants will learn through lectures, demonstrations, and practical experience with the software. The final day of the workshop (Friday 20th January) will be an “own data” session, in which participants will have free time to analyse their own data using PRIMER 7 with PERMANOVA+. The presenter will be close at hand to answer questions and provide support.
Participants will explore the following core topics:
- estimation of components of variation in complex experimental designs, including interactions, covariates, contrasts, fixed or random factors, crossed or nested models, unbalanced designs, environmental impact designs, randomised blocks or repeated measures (PERMANOVA);
- tests for homogeneity of multivariate dispersions and analyses of beta diversity (PERMDISP);
- multivariate regression and model selection procedures (DISTLM);
- unconstrained ordination (PCO, nonmetric MDS and metric MDS), particularly with the aim of visualising the most important factors structuring multivariate data in a given context;
- dissimilarity-based multivariate multiple regression and model selection (DISTLM), including constrained ordination (distance-based redundancy analysis dbRDA), especially to relate biotic data to environmental (or other explanatory) variables;
- canonical analysis of principal coordinates (CAP), including leave-one-out allocation success for discriminant analysis, canonical correlation analyses and the predictive placement of new points into existing canonical model spaces.
This is the first in-person workshop given by anybody from PRIMER-e since 2019 and we’re really excited about it! You’ll also get 10% off the registration fee if you’ve registered to attend ITRS. So, do plan on sticking around for a second week in beautiful Hobart (and/or send a student). Click here for more information and to register https://www.primer-e.com/workshop/permanova-jan-2023/.
Not yet familiar with PRIMER 7? No problem, because there is also an online PRIMER 7 workshop being offered from 21-25 November 2022 in the Eastern Australian time zone. Click here for more details: https://www.primer-e.com/workshop/primer-7-online-november-2022/
