Categorising count data into ordinal responses with application to ecological communities
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Abstract
Count data sets may involve overdispersion from a set of species and underdispersion from another set which would require fitting different models (e.g. a negative binomial model for the overdispersed set and a binomial model for the underdispersed one). Additionally, many count data sets have very high counts and very low counts. Categorising these counts into ordinal categories makes the actual counts less influential in the model fitting, giving broad categories which enable us to detect major broadly based patterns of turnover or nestedness shown by groups of species. In this paper, a strategy of categorising count data into ordinal data was carried out and also we implemented measures to compare different cluster structures. The application of this categorising strategy and a comparison of clustering results between count and categorised ordinal data in two ecological community data sets are shown. A major advantage of using our ordinal approach is that it allows for the inclusion of all different levels of dispersion in the data in one methodology, without treating the data differently. This reduction of the parameters on modelling different levels of dispersion does not substantially change the results in clustering structure. In the two data sets used in this paper, we observed ordinal clustering structure up to 93.1 % similar to those from the count data approaches. This has the important implication of supporting simpler, faster data collection using ordinal scales only.
CitacióFernandez, D.; Pledger, S. Categorising count data into ordinal responses with application to ecological communities. "Journal of agricultural biological and environmental statistics", Juny 2016, vol. 21, núm. 2, p. 348-362.
ISSN1085-7117
Versió de l'editorhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13253-015-0240-3
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