Beta-div interpretation

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Hi @KirKara,
Please see this recent topic for more insight into interpreting these values:

Adonis vs. Anosim vs. Permanova

Hi! I'm a bit of a newbie with stats and I'm still trying to fully grasp things. I'm a bit confused on what exactly the test statistics are telling me for PERMANOVA (pseudo-F), ADONIS (R2) and ANOSIM (R), and what exactly I should be using for my question, that is: are there significant differences between locations? From what I understand of permanova, pseudo-F tells me the ratio of between-group variation and within-group variation. A larger pseudo-F value means that the between-group variat…