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From: "Warren L. Kovach" <wlk@aberystwyth.ac.uk>
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I've appended a description of MVSP to this note; I should have thought of
it before!  

Best wishes,

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          MVSP - A MultiVariate Statistical Package, ver. 2.0

MVSP performs a number of numerical analyses useful in many fields. It
calculates three basic types of eigenanalysis ordinations: principal
components (PCA), principal coordinates (PCO), and correspondence analyses
(CA).  It can also perform cluster analysis, with eighteen different distance
and similarity measures and seven clustering strategies.  Three different
diversity indices may be calculated for ecological data.  Scatterplots and
dendrograms of the results of these analyses can be plotted in graphics mode. 
The program also has a built-in data editor and a variety of options for data
manipulation and transformation.  It is menu driven, with context-sensitive
help, and provides a large number of user-defined settings that can be saved
for future use.

This shareware version of the program can analyse matrices up to 100x100 and
comes with an abbreviated manual on disk. An enhanced version, MVSP Plus, is
available for a US$75 or UK pounds 40; this version can analyse matrices up to
750x750 (if enough memory and hard disk space are available), supports the
80x87 math coprocessor, and comes with a complete printed manual.

Requires and IBM-PC or compatible, 2 floppy disk drives (hard drive
recommended), and 512k RAM.  Graphics adaptor suggested (CGA, EGA, VGA,
Hercules).

  Dr. Warren L. Kovach
  Palynological Research Centre
  Institute of Earth Studies
  University College of Wales
  Aberystwyth, Wales SY23 3DB U.K.

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