entropart (version 1.1.3)

Preprocess.MC: Preprocessing of metacommunity data

Description

Calculates summary statistics of a metacommunity

Usage

Preprocess.MC(Nsi, Wi)

Arguments

Nsi

A matrix containing abundance data, species in line, communities in column.

Wi

Normalized community weights (sum to 1).

Value

• An object of class MetaCommunity. It is a list:
• Nsi
  A matrix containing abundance data, species in line, communities in column
• Nspecies
  The number of species
• Ncommunities
  The number of communities
• Wi
  Normalized community weights (sum to 1)
• N
  The total number of individuals
• Ni
  A vector containing the number of individuals of each community
• Ns
  A vector containing the number of individuals of each species
• Psi
  A matrix whose columns are the probability vectors of communities (each of them sums to 1)
• Ps
  A vector containing the probability vector of the metacommunity
• SampleCoverage
  The sample coverage of the metacommunity
• SampleCoverage.communities
  A vector containing the sample coverages of each community

Details

This is an internal function. It is used by MetaCommunity for real data and DivEst for simulations.