ecopy 0.0.8

EcoPy: Ecological Data Analysis in Python

EcoPy: Python for Ecological Data Analyses
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**EcoPy** provides tools for ecological data analyses. In general, it focuses on multivariate data analysis, which can be useful in any field, but with particular attention to those methods widely used in ecology. `The homepage, with full documentation and examples, can be found here <http://ecopy.readthedocs.org>`_

Install via 'pip install ecopy'

What's New
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0.0.8
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- Updated PCA to use SVD instead of eigen decomposition

License
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**EcoPy** is distributed under the MIT license

Version
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0.0.8

Examples
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Transforming a site x species matrix, dividing by site totals::

import ecopy as ep
varespec = ep.load_data('varespec')
newMat = ep.transform(varespec, method='total', axis=1)

Calculating Bray-Curtis dissimilarities on the new matrix::

brayMat = ep.distance(newMat, method='bray')

PCA on US Arrests data::

USArrests = ep.load_data('USArrests')
prcomp = ep.pca(USArrests, scaled = True)
prcomp.summary()
prcomp.biplot(scale = 0)
prcomp.biplot(scale = 1, obsNames = True)

Full online documentation is a work in progress

TO-DO
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- MINIMUM SPANNING TREE
- PROCRUSTES ROTATION
- LINEAR/SURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL FITTING
- MAXENT WRAPPER
- MANY MANY OTHER THINGS