1. Home
  2. Species Abundance Models Options

Species Abundance Models Options

Use this to set options for fitting distributions or models to species abundance data.

Display

Specifies the output to be displayed.

Summary Summary of the analysis.
Estimates Displays estimates of the parameters.
Fitted values Displays the fitted values.

Log base for octaves

Controls the log base used for forming the octaves for the log series, Poisson log-normal and negative binomial distributions. You can choose between base 2 (representing doubling in species abundance) or base 10.

Graphics

Specifies the plots to be displayed.

Fitted abundance Plot of fitted model or distribution.
Rank abundance Plot of fitted model on a rank/abundance plot. This is only available for the geometric series, Zipf and Zipf-Mandelbrot models.

See also

Updated on May 3, 2019

Was this article helpful?