Primer-E Primer Explained

PRIMER
Developer:	Plymouth Routines in Multivariate Ecology Research
Latest Release Version:	7
Operating System:	Windows
Genre:	Numerical analysis
License:	Proprietary
Website:	http://www.primer-e.com/

Plymouth Routines In Multivariate Ecological Research (PRIMER) is a statistical package that is a collection of specialist univariate, multivariate, and graphical routines for analyzing species sampling data for community ecology.^[1] Types of data analyzed are typically species abundance, biomass, presence/absence, and percent area cover, among others. It is primarily used in the scientific community for ecological and environmental studies.

Multivariate routines include:

• grouping (CLUSTER)
• sorting (MDS)
• principal component identification (PCA)
• hypothesis testing (ANOSIM)
• sample discrimination (SIMPER)
• trend correlation (BEST)
• comparisons (RELATE)
• diversity, dominance, and distribution calculating
• Permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA)^[2]

Routines can be resource intensive due to their non-parametric and permutation-based nature. Programmed in the VB.Net environment.

See also

• Comparison of statistical packages
• List of statistical packages

Notes and References

1. K.R. . Clarke . R.N. . Gorley . 2015 . PRIMER v7: User Manual/Tutorial . PRIMER-E.
2. M.J. . Anderson . R.N. . Gorley . K.R. . Clarke . 2015 . PERMANOVA+ for PRIMER: Guide to Software and Statistical Methods . PRIMER-E.