The basic component of studying modularity and integration is identifying packages of intercorrelated traits that behave independently of other such packages, whether through ontogeny, across individuals within a population, or during the course of evolution. This package performs a simple analysis of modularity on geometric morphometric landmark data. This package accompanies the review by Goswami and Polly (2010). Users are referred to that paper for a discussion of the methods embedded in this package, including their strengths and weaknesses, and for elaboration of other methods that address broader problems.
Installing the Modularity for Mathematica package
- Download the latest release, which is in Mathematica's .m format
- Open the file in Mathematica
- Under the File menu, choose “Install”
- Under Type of Item choose “Package”, under source choose the file you just saved, under Install Name enter “Modularity”.
- Once installed, enter the command “<
Updates in 2.0 This package was updated 7 April 2018 to fix inconsistencies with the latest versions of Mathematica. No substantial changes were made to functions. Updates include changing Agglomerate[] to DirectAgglomerate[] for functions that calculate dendrograms from correlation matrices and no longer loading the Multivariate Statistics package to use the PrincipalComponents[] function.
User's Guide: Modularity for Mathematica Users Guide 2.0.pdf
Cite as: Polly, P.D. and A. Goswami. 2010. Modularity for Mathematica. v.2.0. https://github.com/pdpolly/Modularity-for-Mathematica/