[R-sig-eco] Cluster Analysis using Data Distributions?

[Michele Tobias]

Hi everyone,
I have a dataset that has plant species with the slope and distance 
along the transect recorded for each observed plant.  There are multiple 
occurrences of each species.  So far I have done a cluster analysis 
using hclust() from the vegan package after having calculated the 
average slope and distance for each species (so the dataset only has one 
record for each species).  I would like to take all of the data into 
account and was wondering if there was a clustering method that can take 
into account the distribution of the data - for example, could the 
species be put into groups that have a similar histogram for their slope 
and distance data?

Thanks for your help!

best,
Michele

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Michele Tobias

PhD Candidate
Geography Graduate Group
University of California, Davis

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