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Canoco 4.5 for Windows is now shipping! A full Windows version of the older DOS programCANOCO 3.1
CANOCO cover artA FORTRAN program for canonical community ordination by [partial] [detrended] [canonical] correspondence analysis, principal components analysis, and redundancy analysis.
Canoco 4.5
by Cajo J.F. ter Braak of the Plant Research Institute (PRI), at Wageningen, The Netherlands.
CanoDraw for Windows now included with Canoco 4.5
CanoDraw graphA companion program to CANOCO. CanoDraw produces on-screen graphs and publication quality output suitable for use in Mac and PC image editing and desktop publishing software, as well as direct output to various hardcopy devices.
CanoDraw for Windows
by Petr Smilauer of the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Cornell Ecology Programs (CEP)
A set of indirect ordination and classification programs developed under the aegis of the late Dr. Robert H. Whittaker and written by Mark O. Hill (DECORANA, TWINSPAN), Hugh G. Gauch, Jr. (ORDIFLEX, COMPCLUS) and others. The major programs are available in an MS-DOS version implemented by Charles L. Mohler.
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MatModel
Additive Main effects and Mixed Multiplicative Interactions (AMMI) analysis of genetic yield trial data.
by Hugh G. Gauch, Jr.

top Literature References:

Use these important and seminal references as the basis for a citation search.

CANOCO Literature References

Davies, P. T. and Tso, M. K. -S. (1982).
Procedures for reduced-rank regression. Applied Statistics. 31, 244-255.
Hill, M. O. (1979).
DECORANA - A FORTRAN program for detrended correspondence analysis and reciprocal averaging. Ecology and Systematics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University.
Manly, B. F. (1990).
Randomization and Monte Carlo methods in biology. London: Chapman and Hall.
Oksanen, J. Minchin, P R. (1997).[abstract]
Instability of ordination results under changes in input data order: explanations and remedies Journal of Vegetation Science 8, 447-454.
Robert, P. and Escoufier, Y. (1976).
A unifying tool for linear multivariate statistical methods: the RV-coefficient. Appl. Statist. 25, 257-265.
ter Braak, C. J. F. (1986).
Canonical correspondence analysis: a new eigenvector technique for multivariate direct gradient analysis. Ecology. 67, 1167-1179.
ter Braak, C. J. F. (1987a).
Ordination. In Data analysis in community and landscape ecology, R. H. G. Jongman, C. J. F. ter Braak, and O. F. R. van Tongeren (eds), 91-173. Wageningen: Pudoc.
ter Braak, C. J. F. (1987b).
The analysis of vegetation-environment relationships by canonical correspondence analysis. Vegetatio. 69, 69-77.
ter Braak, C. J. F. (1988).
Partial canonical correspondence analysis. In Classification and related methods of data analysis, H. H. Bock (eds), 551-558. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
ter Braak, C. J. F. (1994).
Canonical community ordination. Part I: Basic theory and linear methods.Ecoscience 1, 127-40.
ter Braak, C. J. F. and Prentice, I. C. (1988).
A theory of gradient analysis. Advances in ecological research. 18, 271-317.
ter Braak, C. J. F. and Verdonschot, P.F.M. (1995).
Canonical correspondence analysis and related multivariate methods in aquatic ecologyAquatic Sciences 5/4, 1-35.

And web-browsable and cross-linked by topic:

Birks, H.J.B., S.M. Peglar, & H.A. Austin (1994).
An Annotated Bibliography of Canonical Correspondence Analysis and Related Constrained Ordination Methods 1986-1993 Botanical Institute, University of Bergen, NORWAY

Thank you, Dr. Birks!

Cornell Ecology Program Literature References

Hill, M.O. (1973).
Reciprocal Averaging: An eigenvector method of Ordination. Journal of Ecology, 61,237-49.
Gauch, H.G., Whittaker, R.H., & Wentworth, T.R. (1977).
A comparative study of reciprocal averaging and other ordination techniques. Journal of Ecology, 65, 157-74.
Hill, M.O. & Gauch, H.G. (1980).
Detrended Correspondence analysis, an improved ordination technique. Vegetatio, 42, 47-58.
Hill, M.O., Bunce, R.G.H., & Shaw, M.W. (1975).
Indicator species analysis, a divisive polythetic method of classification and its application to a survey of native pinewoods in Scotland. Journal of Ecology, 63, 597-613.
Gauch, H.G., & Whittaker, R.H. (1981).
Hierarchical Classification of community data. Journal of Ecology, 69, 135-52.
Gauch, H.G. (1980).
Rapid initial clustering of large data sets. Vegetatio, 42, 103-11.

Discussion

CANOCO 3.15 and later
CANOCO 3.15 and later addresses order dependence and strict convergence in CANOCO.

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