R: Compare species clustering and species groups

comp.test {prabclus} | R Documentation

## Compare species clustering and species groups

### Description

Tests for independence between a clustering and another grouping of species. This is simply an interface to `chisq.test`.

### Usage

    comp.test(cl,spg)

### Arguments

`cl` | a vector of integers. Clustering of species (may be taken from `prabclust`).
`spg` | a vector of integers of the same length, groups of species.

### Details

`chisq.test` with simulated p-value is used.

### Value

Output of `chisq.test`.

### Author(s)

Christian Hennig chrish@stats.ucl.ac.uk http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche

### References

Hausdorf, B. and Hennig, C. (2003) Biotic Element Analysis in Biogeography. Systematic Biology 52, 717-723.

### See Also

`chisq.test`, `prabclust`.

### Examples

    set.seed(1234)
    g1 <- c(rep(1,34),rep(2,12),rep(3,15))
    g2 <- sample(3,61,replace=TRUE)
    comp.test(g1,g2)

[Package prabclus version 2.2-6 Index]