getSpPartialDisparities {epm}

Partial Disparity

Description

Calculate species-specific partial disparity, relative to some group mean.

Usage

getSpPartialDisparities(dat, groupMean = NULL)

Arguments

dat

matrix of multivariate morphological data

groupMean

if NULL, calculated from dat, otherwise can be provided as a vector of mean values

Details

Calculates partial disparities, as in Foote 1993. By default, the group mean is calculated from the full input data.

Value

numeric vector

Author(s)

Pascal Title

Examples

tamiasTraits[1:5, 1:5]
getSpPartialDisparities(tamiasTraits)