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title: "Dissimilarity Cheat Sheet"
author: "Sarah Goslee"
date: "2017-07-12"
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**Things to do with dissimilarity matrices**

_(ecodist functions are marked in **bold**)_

_(untested ideas marked with ?)_


Description | Notation | Name | R function
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Relationship between two matrices | D1 ~ D2 | Mantel test | **mantel**(D1 ~ D2)
Relationship between two matrices given more | D1 ~ D2 | D3 ... Dn | Partial Mantel test | **mantel**(D1 ~ D2 + D3 + ...)
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Spatial structure in one matrix relative to all distance classes | D1 x S | Mantel correlogram | **mgram**(D1, S)
Spatial structure in one matrix given more relative to all distance classes | D1 | D2 ... Dn x S | Partial Mantel correlogram | **?mgram**(residuals(lm(D1 ~ D2 + ...)), space)
Spatial structuce in one matrix by distance class | D1 x S | Piecewise multivariate correlogram | **pmgram**(D1, S)
Spatial structure in one matrix by distance class given more | D1 | D2 ... Dn x S | Piecewise partial multivariate correlogram | **pmgram**(D1, S, D2)
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Spatial structure in the relationship between two matrices | D1 ~ D2 x S | Piecewise Mantel cross-correlogram | **pmgram**(cbind(lower(D1), lower(D2)), S)
Spatial structure in the relationship between two matrices given more | D1 ~ D2 | D3 ... Dn x S | Piecewise partial Mantel cross-correlogram | **pmgram**(cbind(lower(D1), lower(D2)), S, D3)
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Ordination of one matrix | | (N)MDS | **nmds**(y) or **pco**(y)
Ordination of one matrix given more | | (Partial (N)MDS | **?nmds**(residuals(lm(y ~ z1 + ...)))
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Grouping of items based on one matrix | | Cluster analysis | eg hclust(y)
Grouping of items based on one matrix given more | | Partial cluster analysis | ?hclust(residuals(lm(y ~ z1 + ...)))
Grouping of items given space | | Spatially-constrained cluster analysis | NA
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Multiple regression | D1 ~ D2 | D3 ... Dn | Multiple regression on distance matrices | **MRM**(D1 ~ D2 + D3 + ...)


**Ways to calculate dissimilarity matrices**

Description | Result | R function
------------|--------|-----------
From a site by sample matrix | Symmetric matrix with zero diagonals | dist(x) or **bcdist**(x) or **distance**(x)

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**Things to do with cross-dissimilarity matrices**

Description | Notation | Name | R function
------------|----------|------|-----------
Relationship between two cross-dissimilarity matrices | D12 ~ D34 | Cross-Mantel test | **xmantel**(D12 ~ D34)
Relationship between two cross-dissimilarity matrices given more | D12 ~ D34 | D56 ... Dn | Partial cross-Mantel test | **xmantel**(D12 ~ D34 + D56 + ...)
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Spatial structure in one cross-dissimilarity matrix | D12 x S | Cross-Mantel correlogram | **xmgram**(D12, spaceX)
Spatial structure in one cross-dissimilarity matrix given more | D12 | D34 ... Dn x S | Partial cross-Mantel correlogram | **?xmgram**(residuals(lm(D12 ~ D34 + ...)), spaceX)


**Ways to calculate cross-dissimilarity matrices**

Source | Result | R function
-------|--------|-----------
From 2 site by sample matrixes for the same sites and samples (e.g. different years) | nonsymmetric matrix with nonzero diagonals | **xdistance**(x, y)
