Forward selection of explanatory variables.

By F. Guillaume Blanchet, Pierre Legendre, D. Borcard. Ecology, 2008

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Subfields: Food Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Statistics and Probability

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Linking microbial communities, functional genes and nitrogen-cycling processes in forest floors under four tree species (2016, positive): “Forward selection of explanatory variables for RDA was carried out using 264 the packfor function using the method recommended by Blanchet et al. (2008).”
Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms. (2012, methodology): “We constructed environmental models for the different organism groups by applying the forward selection procedure of Blanchet et al. (2008) to environmental variables (see Appendix S3 for a complete list).”
Variation partitioning in ecological communities: Do the numbers add up? (2010, methodology): “We also found that there is an increased likelihood of selecting eigenvector axes once one axis has been selected, even though the conservative forward-selection procedure developed by Blanchet, Legendre & Borcard (2008) was used.”
Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis (2012, methodology): “…have recently been developed and diversified (e.g., Borcard et al. 1992, Borcard and Legendre 2002, Wagner 2004, Dray et al. 2006, Ferrier and Guisan 2006, Lichstein 2007, Soininen et al. 2007, Blanchet et al. 2008a), we aim to highlight here how they can be used to address the above questions.”
Using DNA to assess errors in tropical tree identifications: How often are ecologists wrong and when does it matter? (2010, methodology): “We used a forward selection approach (Blanchet et al. 2008), separately for the environmental and spatial variables, to determine which variables contributed significantly to variation in community composition.”