Environmental variables used to model the distribution of the alliances included temperature, precipitation, elevation, elevation-derived terrain variables (slope, transformed aspect, topographic moisture index, solar radiation, and landscape position), and categorical landform/surface composition variables.
Soil composition classification data were refined for categorical analysis into their predominant base soil types - sand, clay, peat and loam.
Data were analysed with two-way ANOVA with focal species (bacterial strain), bacterial community composition, predation and resource concentration as categorical explanatory variables.
Variables used in the study are basically categorical with mean values from summary statistics showing the percentage composition of each variable.
The program will work over a three-month period to produce a virtual gallery of past and present works through four categorical processes to produce the matches: object recognition, facial recognition, composition recognition, and context recognition.
The background variables that were different in three groups were examined for any relationship with FA composition by the Student's t-test (for categorical variables) or the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (for continuous variables).
Infants of 1 and 2 years did not differ with regard to maternal BMI, duration of breastfeeding or parity, all factors that may influence body composition and fat distribution.> -wrap-foot> Categorical values are presented as percentage.
Differences in sample composition as defined by Carstairs quintile were, for the categorical variables, subjected to the chi-squared test.
That's categorical," she said.
