[R-sig-eco] Which statistical methods should I use?

[Sarah Goslee]

Hi,

We're happy to try to help, but we really need either a specific R
question or a clearer statement of problem. For instance, I have
no idea what a NAO index is, or what its statistical properties might
be. You don't describe what kind of temperature and precipitation data
you have, or give a clear idea of just what you are trying to test.

R has good facilities for CCA. This article by Gonzalez et al. in the
Journal of Statistical Software might be of use:
http://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i12/
along with the associated R package.

If you have questions about applying those methods after you
read the paper and the package help and work through the
examples, then please explain more clearly what you need so
that we can help you.

Sarah

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Mustafa Tufan Turp <turcomania at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> I have a research on different NAO indices and its impacts on local
> temperature and precipitation trends. So which correlation method is the
> best to see their statistical relationship? I thought using Canonical
> Correlation Analysis works well. By the way I am new at R and can you
> recommend some packages? Does the CCA help me for analyzing and plots? I
> need your answers urgently. Thank you.
>
> Regards.
>
> Tufan Turp
> Bogazici University


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Sarah Goslee
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