INA Summer School on Evolution and Taxonomy – Resources

Class on Mixture analysis

References:

• O'Dea, S.A., Gibbs, S.J., Bown, P.R., Young, J.R., Poulton, A.J., Newsam, C., Wilson, P.A., 2014. Coccolithophore calcification response to past ocean acidification and climate change. Nature Communications 5.
• Hammer, Ø., Harper, D.A.T., Ryan, P.D., 2001. PAST: paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica 4, 1-9. manual
• Suchéras-Marx, B., Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Escarguel, G., Suan, G., 2010. Astronomically-paced coccolith size variations during the early Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 295, 281-292.

Class on PCA logratio transformation

References:

• Aitchison, J., 1983. Principal component analysis of compositional data. Biometrika 70, 57-65.
• Kucera, M., Malmgren, B.A., 1998. Logratio transformation of compositional data: a resolution of the constant sum constraint. Marine Micropaleontology 34, 117-120.

Class on Relative abundances and ratios confidence intervals

References:

• Clopper, C.J., Pearson, E.S., 1934. The use of confidence or fiducial limits illustrated in the case of the binomial. Biometrika 26, 404-413.
• Hammer, Ø., Harper, D.A.T., Ryan, P.D., 2001. PAST: paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica 4, 1-9. manual
• Suchéras-Marx, B., Escarguel, G., Ferreira, J., Hammer, Ø., 2019. Statistical confidence intervals for relative abundances and abundance-based ratios: Simple practical solutions for an old overlooked question. Marine Micropaleontology 151, 101751.