[R-sig-eco] simple question about nmds

[Simone Ruzza]

Dear list,

apologies for the total beginner's question. I was wondering whether
one can use the site scores of an NMDS ordination to do do further
analyses as typically done for other ordination methods, e.g. use the
axis scores as predictors in a multiple regression settings. I think
it should not be possible, because the aim of NMDS is not to summarize
the major patterns of variations withing a multivariate dataset. Do
you confirm?

thanks in advance,

Simone