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Should we write a vignette for non-continuous trait data? #75

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Rekyt opened this issue Apr 26, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #83
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Should we write a vignette for non-continuous trait data? #75

Rekyt opened this issue Apr 26, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #83
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Rekyt commented Apr 26, 2023

I often get emailed about non-continuous trait data that fundiversity doesn't handle.
I wonder if we should write a full vignette to show the general workflow, an include this in the error message for non-continuous trait data.

The workflow would go as follow (with a worked through example):

  1. Identify the nature of all of your traits (binary, fuzzy-coded, categorical)
  2. Compute a dissimilarity matrix between your species of interest (Gower's dissimilarity or its extensions from Podani or Pavoine)
  3. Project this dissimilarity matrix onto continuous axes through a Principal Coordinates Analysis
  4. Select a number of PCoA axes and interpret them using correlation with original trait data
  5. Use them in fundiversity

I don't think it would be necessary to add any feature to fundiversity to deal with this case, as it's covered extensively by other tools (especially mFD), but maybe having a long-form documentation could be helpful to point users to.

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Rekyt commented May 4, 2023

👍 for a question regarding fuzzy-coded traits

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