Hello, I want to rank the dissimilarity of sites based on their species composition. For example, I would like to be able to say that site A is less similar in composition to the other sites than site B is similar to the other sites. I could do a cluster analysis and look at which sites are less closely clustered.

It would be even better if I could come up with a quantitative scale rather than a relative ranking that would give a value for each site based on its relative dissimilarity to the rest of the sites. So site A might receive a 90 out of 100, whereas site B and C might receive a 60 and a 50 indicating the rank as well as 'relative quantity' of dissimilarity for each site.

Thanks,
Burak

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Burak K. Pekin, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Purdue University


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