Moran.I {ape}R Documentation

Moran's I Autocorrelation Index

Description

This function computes Moran's I autocorrelation coefficient of x giving a matrix of weights using the method described by Gittleman and Kot (1990).

Usage

  Moran.I(x, weight, scaled = FALSE, na.rm = FALSE,
          alternative = "two.sided")

Arguments

x a numeric vector.
weight a matrix of weights.
scaled a logical indicating whether the coefficient should be scaled so that it varies between -1 and +1 (default to FALSE).
na.rm a logical indicating whether missing values should be removed.
alternative a character string specifying the alternative hypothesis that is tested against the null hypothesis of no phylogenetic correlation; must be of one "two.sided", "less", or "greater", or any unambiguous abbrevation of these.

Details

The matrix weight is used as ``neighbourhood'' weights, and Moran's I coefficient is computed using the formula:

I = n/S0 * (sum{i=1..n} sum{j=1..n} wij(yi - ym))(yj - ym) / (sum{i=1..n} (yi - ym)^2)

with

The null hypothesis of no phylogenetic correlation is tested assuming normality of I under this null hypothesis. If the observed value of I is significantly greater than the expected value, then the values of x are positively autocorrelated, whereas if Iobserved < Iexpected, this will indicate negative autocorrelation.

Value

A list containing the elements:

observed the computed Moran's I.
expected the expected value of I under the null hypothesis.
sd the standard deviation of I under the null hypothesis.
p.value the P-value of the test of the null hypothesis against the alternative hypothesis specified in alternative.

Author(s)

Julien Dutheil julien.dutheil@univ-montp2.fr and Emmanuel Paradis Emmanuel.Paradis@mpl.ird.fr

References

Gittleman, J. L. and Kot, M. (1990) Adaptation: statistics and a null model for estimating phylogenetic effects. Systematic Zoology, 39, 227–241.

See Also

weight.taxo

Examples

tr <- rtree(30)
x <- rnorm(30)
## weights w[i,j] = 1/d[i,j]:
w <- 1/cophenetic(tr)
## set the diagonal w[i,i] = 0 (instead of Inf...):
diag(w) <- 0
Moran.I(x, w)
Moran.I(x, w, alt = "l")
Moran.I(x, w, alt = "g")
Moran.I(x, w, scaled = TRUE) # usualy the same

[Package ape version 2.3 Index]