Montecarlo-statistics on R x C matrices

Compares R x C table with randomized tables of same row and column totals.

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Methods, References and Acknowledgements

Method described in:
Nico Blüthgen, Florian Menzel and Nils Blüthgen: Measuring specialization in species interaction networks,BMC Ecology 2006, 6:9 (pdf)

RxC randomization algorithm based on:
Patefield, W.M. (1981) An efficient method of generating random RxC tables with given row and column totals. Applied Statistics 30: 91-97.
The StatLib of the Royal Statistical Society is acknowledged for permission.

Test statistic T=sum( f(r,c) * log f(r,c) ) or H=-sum( p(r,c) * log p(r,c) )

Minimum percentage of random matrices with T below or above observed matrix taken as signficance level of difference between given matrix and random matrices, see:
Manley, B.F.J. (1997) Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology. Chapman & Hall, London, 399 pp.

Contact

Please contact Nils Blüthgen (nils.bluethgen AT itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de) or Nico Blüthgen (bluethgen AT biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de) for further information.

Changes

12.12.05 Calculation of H, H', d and d' included

20.07.05 Calculation of Tmin, Tmax and S included

13.02.02 Changed input-buffer to allow bigger matrices

05.09.02 Output is now stddev and not variance