Primer-E Primer

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Plymouth Routines In Multivariate Ecological Research version six (PRIMER 6). PRIMER 6 is a collection of specialist routines for analyzing species or sample abundance(biomass). It is primarily used in the scientific community for ecological and environmental studies.

Multivariate routines include:

• grouping (CLUSTER)
• sorting (MDS)
• principal component identification (PCA)
• hypothesis testing (ANOSIM)
• sample discrimination (SIMPER)
• trend correlation (BEST)
• comparisons (RELATE)
• diversity, dominance, and distribution calculating

Routines can be resource intensive due to their non-parametric and permutation-based nature. Programed in the VB.Net environment. licensing ranges from £560 to £144 per copy.

See also

• Comparison of statistical packages
• List of statistical packages

External links

• Primer homepage
• Primer origin
• methods papers
• other popular data analysis tools:
  • Environmental Stats for S-PLUS
  • Minitab
  • SPSS
  • SAS
  • R commander