Description

Simulated dataset of size 56 x 985 that can be used to illustrate the methods in Section 5.1 of Niku et al., (2017).

Usage

Format

y

A data frame with abundances of 985 species measured at 56 sites

X

Environmental variables soil organic matter, pH and phosphorus and region variables

References

Niku, J., Warton, D. I., Hui, F. K. C., and Taskinen, S. (2017). Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models for Multivariate Count and Biomass Data in Ecology. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 22, 498-522.