W. Kovach has now provided v2.1 (the version available in this directory).

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).

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