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This set of function extracts influence statistics and some other linear model statistics directly from a constrained ordination result object from cca, rda, capscale or dbrda. The constraints are linear model functions and these support functions return identical results as the corresponding linear models (lm), and you can use their documentation. The main functions for normal usage are leverage values (hatvalues), standardized residuals (rstandard), studentized or leave-one-out residuals (rstudent), and Cook's distance (cooks.distance). In addition, vcov returns the variance-covariance matrix of coefficients, and its diagonal values the variances of coefficients. Other functions are mainly support functions for these, but they can be used directly.

Usage

# S3 method for cca
hatvalues(model, ...)
# S3 method for cca
rstandard(model, type = c("response", "canoco"), ...)
# S3 method for cca
rstudent(model, type = c("response", "canoco"), ...)
# S3 method for cca
cooks.distance(model, type = c("response", "canoco"), ...)

# S3 method for cca
sigma(object, type = c("response", "canoco"), ...)
# S3 method for cca
vcov(object, type = "canoco", ...)
# S3 method for cca
SSD(object, type = "canoco", ...)

# S3 method for cca
qr(x, ...)
# S3 method for cca
df.residual(object, ...)

Arguments

model, object, x

A constrained ordination result object.

type

Type of statistics used for extracting raw residuals and residual standard deviation (sigma). Either "response" for species data or difference of WA and LC scores for "canoco".

...

Other arguments to functions (ignored).

Details

The vegan algorithm for constrained ordination uses linear model (or weighted linear model in cca) to find the fitted values of dependent community data, and constrained ordination is based on this fitted response (Legendre & Legendre 2012). The hatvalues give the leverage values of these constraints, and the leverage is independent on the response data. Other influence statistics (rstandard, rstudent, cooks.distance) are based on leverage, and on the raw residuals and residual standard deviation (sigma). With type = "response" the raw residuals are given by the unconstrained component of the constrained ordination, and influence statistics are a matrix with dimensions no. of observations times no. of species. For cca the statistics are the same as obtained from the lm model using Chi-square standardized species data (see decostand) as dependent variable, and row sums of community data as weights, and for rda the lm model uses non-modified community data and no weights.

The algorithm in the CANOCO software constraints the results during iteration by performing a linear regression of weighted averages (WA) scores on constraints and taking the fitted values of this regression as linear combination (LC) scores (ter Braak 1984). The WA scores are directly found from species scores, but LC scores are linear combinations of constraints in the regression. With type = "canoco" the raw residuals are the differences of WA and LC scores, and the residual standard deviation (sigma) is taken to be the axis sum of squared WA scores minus one. These quantities have no relationship to residual component of ordination, but they rather are methodological artefacts of an algorithm that is not used in vegan. The result is a matrix with dimensions no. of observations times no. of constrained axes.

Function vcov returns the matrix of variances and covariances of regression coefficients. The diagonal values of this matrix are the variances, and their square roots give the standard errors of regression coefficients. The function is based on SSD that extracts the sum of squares and crossproducts of residuals. The residuals are defined similarly as in influence measures and with each type they have similar properties and limitations, and define the dimensions of the result matrix.

References

Legendre, P. and Legendre, L. (2012) Numerical Ecology. 3rd English ed. Elsevier.

ter Braak, C.J.F. (1984--): CANOCO -- a FORTRAN program for canonical community ordination by [partial] [detrended] [canonical] correspondence analysis, principal components analysis and redundancy analysis. TNO Inst. of Applied Computer Sci., Stat. Dept. Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Note

Function as.mlm casts an ordination object to a multiple linear model of class "mlm" (see lm), and similar statistics can be derived from that modified object as with this set of functions. However, there are some problems in the R implementation of the further analysis of multiple linear model objects. When the results differ, the current set of functions is more probable to be correct. The use of as.mlm objects should be avoided.

Author

Jari Oksanen

See also

Corresponding lm methods and as.mlm.cca. Function ordiresids provides lattice graphics for residuals.

Examples


data(varespec, varechem)
mod <- cca(varespec ~ Al + P + K, varechem)
## leverage
hatvalues(mod)
#>         18         15         24         27         23         19         22 
#> 0.06904416 0.06666628 0.15245083 0.18944882 0.09291510 0.05122338 0.15309307 
#>         16         28         13         14         20         25          7 
#> 0.09605909 0.27139695 0.75889765 0.04958141 0.06582891 0.10590183 0.20630888 
#>          5          6          3          4          2          9         12 
#> 0.19797654 0.16280522 0.22738889 0.30915530 0.15557066 0.14855598 0.09046701 
#>         10         11         21 
#> 0.12745850 0.10984996 0.14195559 
plot(hatvalues(mod), type = "h")

## ordination plot with leverages: points with high leverage have
## similar LC and WA scores
plot(mod, type = "n")
ordispider(mod)       # segment from LC to WA scores
points(mod, dis="si", cex=5*hatvalues(mod), pch=21, bg=2) # WA scores
text(mod, dis="bp", col=4)


## deviation and influence
head(rstandard(mod))
#>      Callvulg   Empenigr    Rhodtome     Vaccmyrt   Vaccviti   Pinusylv
#> 18  0.4084518  0.9442480 -0.68178124 -0.798241724  0.9883838 -0.3086868
#> 15 -1.3902462 -1.5717947 -0.70784872 -0.645563228  0.2353736 -0.1679226
#> 24  0.9622453 -0.9520875 -0.08884556 -0.654099911  0.2420416  0.4832198
#> 27 -1.1080099  1.0938951  1.70146427 -0.196668562 -0.3937467 -0.7424140
#> 23  0.3979939  1.3218254 -0.63872221 -1.003315524  1.8996365 -0.4495408
#> 19 -1.5874575  0.7894087 -0.59609083 -0.006142973  0.1334143 -0.1060450
#>      Descflex   Betupube   Vacculig   Diphcomp      Dicrsp     Dicrfusc
#> 18 -0.5785258 -0.4585683  0.7640788  4.3748349 -0.39301720 -0.656213958
#> 15 -0.5416812 -0.4594716 -0.3410155 -0.2704388 -0.05769657  0.406022095
#> 24 -0.6409619  0.1908003  0.0198320 -0.2175720  3.75416938 -0.009140093
#> 27  4.2976822 -0.2704153  0.9211453 -0.2037075 -0.84410200 -0.712968237
#> 23 -0.8356637 -0.2779318 -0.0206861 -0.2899895 -0.67773316 -0.294674408
#> 19 -0.4453843 -0.3739569 -0.3174207 -0.2429740 -0.14281646 -0.819230368
#>      Dicrpoly   Hylosple   Pleuschr    Polypili   Polyjuni   Polycomm
#> 18 -0.4933634 -0.6030042 -1.3812122 -0.07430854 -0.5332731 -0.7140513
#> 15 -0.3630434 -0.4055353  1.9930791  0.02126658 -0.2274864 -0.6730241
#> 24  2.2312025 -1.3907968  0.5792314 -0.45358405 -0.4628096 -0.2153846
#> 27 -0.5715008  1.6310289  0.8124329 -0.34628172 -0.8630615  0.9423113
#> 23 -0.4684368 -1.1995321 -0.8241477 -0.04953929  0.7890327 -0.6774675
#> 19 -0.3186606 -0.3948224  0.6180114  0.05035990  0.8260214  2.3626483
#>      Pohlnuta    Ptilcili    Barbhatc   Cladarbu    Cladrang   Cladstel
#> 18  0.2918311 -0.42027512 -0.40191333  1.5303054  0.85056948 -0.2218833
#> 15 -0.6168627 -0.47096984 -0.42715787  0.1758993 -0.45409579 -0.3739920
#> 24  1.9274063  0.09984384  0.21066100  0.1668363 -0.08508535 -1.2835676
#> 27 -1.5729552 -0.31944598 -0.09167396 -0.1864165  0.51080623 -0.1083797
#> 23  0.4875575  0.61798970 -0.18848086  0.5574309  0.28079468 -0.4026464
#> 19 -0.1141521 -0.25344373 -0.31179839 -0.2391669 -0.65577452  0.6584127
#>       Cladunci    Cladcocc   Cladcorn    Cladgrac   Cladfimb   Cladcris
#> 18 -0.39796095  0.93836573 -0.2564543  0.33864378  1.1572584 -0.2083305
#> 15  0.06761526  0.24340663 -0.1767166  0.27491203  1.0721632  1.9724410
#> 24  1.24902375 -0.98471253 -0.4801382  2.51184311 -1.4063518 -0.3084304
#> 27 -0.59021669 -1.25354423 -0.2460447 -1.09351514 -1.1681499 -1.0337232
#> 23 -0.34604539 -0.10730202  3.9477300  2.51924664  0.3536280  3.3882402
#> 19 -0.33866721  0.02698153  0.1776632  0.03968833 -0.7512944 -0.4763562
#>      Cladchlo   Cladbotr   Cladamau     Cladsp   Cetreric   Cetrisla
#> 18 -0.5711604 -0.4914716  4.0852019  0.2489284 -0.4428064 -0.5834462
#> 15 -0.4347061 -0.6517740 -0.3155708 -0.2568784  0.2369559 -0.3468005
#> 24  0.6013607  0.4603779 -0.1576900 -0.5995616  2.7826114  0.3931826
#> 27 -0.5436659 -0.2788962 -0.1606997  0.1557879 -0.7298364 -0.5867612
#> 23  0.1029999  0.6494142 -0.3415411 -0.2330698 -0.6309632 -0.5301977
#> 19  0.2793712 -0.1315438 -0.2705486 -0.2865837 -0.4664078 -0.5056846
#>       Flavniva   Nepharct      Stersp   Peltapht     Icmaeric    Cladcerv
#> 18  0.30428187 -0.3624631 -0.23665431 -0.1571633 -0.630333375  0.12058739
#> 15  0.17345018 -0.1919943  0.05469573 -0.3233311 -0.561177494  0.08518455
#> 24 -0.74154401 -0.4146848 -0.05500461 -0.7609417  0.255058737 -0.92761801
#> 27  0.11301489 -0.5064006 -0.08681568 -0.1247151 -0.001277338 -0.04038189
#> 23  0.09411988 -0.4627811  0.47668055  3.5826478 -0.274664798 -0.05517988
#> 19  0.07211309 -0.1693122 -0.17244475 -0.3155345 -0.461532920 -0.02709075
#>       Claddefo   Cladphyl
#> 18 -0.43581630 -0.2098378
#> 15  0.94176661 -0.1028102
#> 24 -0.07508682 -1.0479632
#> 27 -1.06110299 -0.4908554
#> 23  2.66430575 -0.4244333
#> 19 -0.08427954 -0.1692474
head(cooks.distance(mod))
#>       Callvulg   Empenigr     Rhodtome     Vaccmyrt     Vaccviti     Pinusylv
#> 18 0.003093283 0.01653142 0.0086184263 1.181427e-02 0.0181129462 0.0017667454
#> 15 0.034513793 0.04411649 0.0089472619 7.441951e-03 0.0009892926 0.0005035324
#> 24 0.041636714 0.04076229 0.0003549575 1.923947e-02 0.0026344196 0.0105001237
#> 27 0.071736260 0.06992022 0.1691597848 2.260067e-03 0.0090591037 0.0322065174
#> 23 0.004056312 0.04474315 0.0104472601 2.577825e-02 0.0924100906 0.0051750754
#> 19 0.034013281 0.00841101 0.0047958896 5.093326e-07 0.0002402422 0.0001517834
#>       Descflex    Betupube     Vacculig     Diphcomp       Dicrsp     Dicrfusc
#> 18 0.006205594 0.003898934 1.082466e-02 0.3548634058 2.863921e-03 7.984152e-03
#> 15 0.005239584 0.003769873 2.076622e-03 0.0013060122 5.944416e-05 2.943802e-03
#> 24 0.018474359 0.001637053 1.768633e-05 0.0021286828 6.337714e-01 3.756697e-06
#> 27 1.079245024 0.004272814 4.958014e-02 0.0024247421 4.163335e-02 2.970242e-02
#> 23 0.017883042 0.001978130 1.095811e-05 0.0021534900 1.176240e-02 2.223634e-03
#> 19 0.002677405 0.001887502 1.359924e-03 0.0007968265 2.752966e-04 9.058502e-03
#>       Dicrpoly    Hylosple    Pleuschr     Polypili     Polyjuni    Polycomm
#> 18 0.004513066 0.006741841 0.035371924 1.023801e-04 0.0052727512 0.009453588
#> 15 0.002353565 0.002936747 0.070934636 8.076156e-06 0.0009241023 0.008088546
#> 24 0.223863289 0.086982577 0.015087217 9.251676e-03 0.0096318471 0.002086096
#> 27 0.019084693 0.155444288 0.038567940 7.006653e-03 0.0435246182 0.051884812
#> 23 0.005619275 0.036846999 0.017393559 6.284604e-05 0.0159429407 0.011753178
#> 19 0.001370570 0.002104010 0.005155103 3.423056e-05 0.0092093061 0.075342921
#>        Pohlnuta     Ptilcili     Barbhatc     Cladarbu     Cladrang
#> 18 0.0015790689 0.0032749544 0.0029950405 0.0434204290 0.0134139742
#> 15 0.0067949512 0.0039609143 0.0032582625 0.0005525065 0.0036821731
#> 24 0.1670519112 0.0004482780 0.0019955986 0.0012516596 0.0003255476
#> 27 0.1445719869 0.0059627459 0.0004910701 0.0020305802 0.0152462776
#> 23 0.0060873754 0.0097800450 0.0009097308 0.0079572035 0.0020190921
#> 19 0.0001758783 0.0008669766 0.0013121758 0.0007720518 0.0058043470
#>        Cladstel     Cladunci     Cladcocc     Cladcorn     Cladgrac    Cladfimb
#> 18 0.0009128242 2.936424e-03 1.632609e-02 0.0012194323 2.126298e-03 0.024831249
#> 15 0.0024976637 8.163919e-05 1.057972e-03 0.0005576530 1.349574e-03 0.020527262
#> 24 0.0740870642 7.015301e-02 4.360375e-02 0.0103666250 2.837200e-01 0.088939118
#> 27 0.0006863532 2.035516e-02 9.181862e-02 0.0035373629 6.987166e-02 0.079734929
#> 23 0.0041517010 3.066511e-03 2.948453e-04 0.3990922140 1.625248e-01 0.003202372
#> 19 0.0058511426 1.548070e-03 9.826017e-06 0.0004260291 2.126033e-05 0.007618415
#>        Cladcris     Cladchlo     Cladbotr     Cladamau      Cladsp    Cetreric
#> 18 0.0008047178 0.0060485887 0.0044785217 0.3094317912 0.001148912 0.003635513
#> 15 0.0694732020 0.0033744318 0.0075858327 0.0017782910 0.001178323 0.001002639
#> 24 0.0042777886 0.0162620357 0.0095308986 0.0011181833 0.016164882 0.348184969
#> 27 0.0624395810 0.0172709295 0.0045450274 0.0015089732 0.001418140 0.031124511
#> 23 0.2939860714 0.0002716767 0.0107999564 0.0029872002 0.001391075 0.010194981
#> 19 0.0030627243 0.0010534342 0.0002335528 0.0009879496 0.001108529 0.002936134
#>       Cetrisla     Flavniva     Nepharct       Stersp     Peltapht     Icmaeric
#> 18 0.006311601 1.716683e-03 0.0024359336 1.038405e-03 0.0004579733 7.366793e-03
#> 15 0.002147676 5.372282e-04 0.0006582422 5.342149e-05 0.0018668272 5.623539e-03
#> 24 0.006951741 2.472742e-02 0.0077328775 1.360514e-04 0.0260380002 2.925400e-03
#> 27 0.020117510 7.463161e-04 0.0149844191 4.404005e-04 0.0009088445 9.533741e-08
#> 23 0.007198701 2.268512e-04 0.0054844061 5.818798e-03 0.3286900860 1.931899e-03
#> 19 0.003451467 7.018956e-05 0.0003869197 4.013694e-04 0.0013438101 2.875078e-03
#>        Cladcerv     Claddefo     Cladphyl
#> 18 2.696135e-04 3.521639e-03 0.0008164040
#> 15 1.295779e-04 1.583784e-02 0.0001887477
#> 24 3.869397e-02 2.535317e-04 0.0493852158
#> 27 9.528504e-05 6.579101e-02 0.0140785723
#> 23 7.797221e-05 1.817802e-01 0.0046131462
#> 19 9.905729e-06 9.587131e-05 0.0003866237

## Influence measures from lm
y <- decostand(varespec, "chi.square") # needed in cca
y1 <- with(y, Cladstel)         # take one species for lm
lmod1 <- lm(y1 ~ Al + P + K, varechem, weights = rowSums(varespec))
## numerically identical within 2e-15
all(abs(cooks.distance(lmod1) - cooks.distance(mod)[, "Cladstel"]) < 1e-8)
#> [1] TRUE

## t-values of regression coefficients based on type = "canoco"
## residuals
coef(mod)
#>            CCA1         CCA2         CCA3
#> Al  0.007478556 -0.001883637  0.003380774
#> P  -0.006491081 -0.102189737 -0.022306682
#> K  -0.006755568  0.015343662  0.017067351
coef(mod)/sqrt(diag(vcov(mod, type = "canoco")))
#>          CCA1      CCA2      CCA3
#> Al  6.5615451 -1.397643  3.313629
#> P  -0.4576132 -6.092557 -1.756774
#> K  -2.0862129  4.007159  5.887926