decostand(x, method, MARGIN, range.global, logbase = 2, na.rm=FALSE, ...)
wisconsin(x)1 = rows,
and 2 = columns of x.method = "range". This allows using same ranges across
subsets of data. The dimensions of MARGIN must match with
x. method = "log"."decostand" giving the name of applied standardization
"method".
total: divide by margin total (default MARGIN = 1).
max: divide by margin maximum (default MARGIN = 2).
freq: divide by margin maximum and multiply by the
number of non-zero items, so that the average of non-zero entries is
one (Oksanen 1983; default MARGIN = 2).
normalize: make margin sum of squares equal to one (default
MARGIN = 1).
range: standardize values into range 0 ... 1 (default
MARGIN = 2). If all values are constant, they will be
transformed to 0.
standardize: scale x to zero mean and unit variance
(default MARGIN = 2).
pa: scale x to presence/absence scale (0/1).
chi.square: divide by row sums and square root of
column sums, and adjust for square root of matrix total
(Legendre & Gallagher 2001). When used with the Euclidean
distance, the distances should be similar to the
Chi-square distance used in correspondence analysis. However, the
results from cmdscale would still differ, since
CA is a weighted ordination method (default MARGIN = 1).
hellinger: square root of method = "total"
(Legendre & Gallagher 2001).
log: logarithmic transformation as suggested by
Anderson et al. (2006): $log_b (x) + 1$ for
$x > 0$, where $b$ is the base of the logarithm; zeros are
left as zeros. Higher bases give less weight to quantities and more
to presences, and logbase = Inf gives the presence/absence
scaling. Please note this is not $log(x+1)$.
Anderson et al. (2006) suggested this for their (strongly) modified
Gower distance (implemented as method = "altGower" in
vegdist), but the standardization can be used
independently of distance indices.
Standardization, as contrasted to transformation, means that the entries are transformed relative to other entries.
All methods have a default margin. MARGIN=1 means rows (sites
in a normal data set) and MARGIN=2 means columns (species in a
normal data set).
Command wisconsin is a shortcut to common Wisconsin double
standardization where species (MARGIN=2) are first standardized
by maxima (max) and then sites (MARGIN=1) by
site totals (tot).
Most standardization methods will give nonsense results with
negative data entries that normally should not occur in the community
data. If there are empty sites or species (or constant with
method = "range"), many standardization will change these into
NaN.
Legendre, P. & Gallagher, E.D. (2001) Ecologically meaningful transformations for ordination of species data. Oecologia 129, 271--280.
Oksanen, J. (1983) Ordination of boreal heath-like vegetation with principal component analysis, correspondence analysis and multidimensional scaling. Vegetatio 52, 181--189.
data(varespec)
sptrans <- decostand(varespec, "max")
apply(sptrans, 2, max)
sptrans <- wisconsin(varespec)
## Chi-square: PCA similar but not identical to CA.
## Use wcmdscale for weighted analysis and identical results.
sptrans <- decostand(varespec, "chi.square")
plot(procrustes(rda(sptrans), cca(varespec)))
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