List: A Dissimilarity Object from the mat.dissim function.
inModern
Dataframe: The modern dataset with column(s) representing environmental values at each modern sample site.
envColumn
Numeric: The number of the column with the environmental values to be reconstructed.
cutoff
Numeric: The critical value of dissimilarity based on a priori knowledge or determined via mat.roc or mat.mc functions
calib
Logical: T for modern calibration (default). If F then it is assumed that a set of fossil assemblages are being tested.
Value
A LIST with the following components:
alpha
Numeric: optimal alpha value.
alphacor
Datatable: two columns, alpha and correlation.
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Details
With a cutoff > 0, only pairwise complete observations are used.
References
SAWADA, M. 2006. An open-source implementation of the modern analog technique (MAT) within the R computing environment. Computers and Geosciences, Vol 32(6):818-833, DOI information: 10.1016/j.cageo.2005.10.008