Plymouth Routines In Multivariate Ecological Research (PRIMER) is a statistical package that is a collection of specialist univariate, multivariate, and graphical routines for analyzing species sampling data for community ecology.
[1] Types of data analyzed are typically species abundance, biomass, presence/absence, and percent area cover, among others.
It is primarily used in the scientific community for ecological and environmental studies.
Multivariate routines include: Routines can be resource intensive due to their non-parametric and permutation-based nature.
Programmed in the VB.Net environment.