PRIMER 8
with PERMANOVA+

From complex data to clear insights.

Why use PRIMER?

ROBUST MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Our software empowers you with robust statistical tools to gain powerful insights from complex multivariate data.

Your Data...

Real datasets are complex, often in more than one way.

Many variables

A high-dimensional system,
zero-inflated, and
non-normal.

Many factors

Spatial, temporal and experimental factors that can interact,
Random effects and/or hierarchical sampling designs,
A host of potential predictor variables.

Such data cannot be analysed using conventional methods.

Your Journey...

PRIMER 8 with PERMANOVA+ software was built to handle complex multivariate data in a clear and unified non-parametric framework, giving you robust and reliable results you can trust.

You can:

Integrate information across a large number of variables;
Create stunning graphics to reveal important structures;
Find statistically coherent clusters of samples or variables;
Partition variation according to relevant factors or predictor variables;
Identify key drivers generating salient multivariate patterns;
Test your hypotheses using rigorous permutation-based techniques.
… and so much more.

Your Insights...

Go directly to the heart of your data and get results. Distil important insights. Visualise patterns and test your scientific ideas, without the barrier of coding.

PRIMER 8 with PERMANOVA+ is backed by over 3 decades of intensive statistical research in multivariate analysis, experimental design, bio-stats, and non-parametric methods for rigorous inference.

Many of the core routines – such as ANOSIM and PERMANOVA – were created by us. Only PRIMER software implements these methods correctly for complex experimental designs, including random effects.

Version 8 also offers a plethora of new routines not found anywhere else, like PERMANOVA allowing for heterogeneous dispersions, finite factors, and dissimilarity-based multivariate control charts.

A Global Community

PRIMER Software is trusted worldwide, with thousands of end-users across 130 different countries (and counting…)

Is Primer 8 for you?

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What our customers say

"In undergraduate teaching, the PRIMER wizards allow us to focus on biological interpretation, not spending the lab generating outputs."

Professor Mary Sewell, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand

"PRIMER with PERMANOVA+ has been an essential tool for our work and has greatly advanced our ability to analyze and understand complex ecological datasets."

Associate Professor Walter H. Smith, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Virginia, USA

"No piece of software has been more important to me. Keeps users in the driving seat, understanding how analyses are influencing results."

Dr. Steve Wakelin, Senior Soil Scientist, Environmental Microbiology, Scion Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

"PRIMER is like a colleague to me. One who understands what I want to do."

Professor Antonio Terlizzi, Director, Integrative Marine Ecology Department, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

"PRIMER software provides a proven and trustworthy tool… The user interface and graphic(s) encourage exploration to better understand data."

Professor Neil Andrew, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia

"I appreciate the detail in the software manuals & tutorials. The ecological examples that give context are well-explained & helpful!"

Dr Rob Sherlock, Research Specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA, USA

"I really enjoy using PRIMER not only for my own research, but also for teaching the next generation of researchers."

Professor Sean Connell, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

"More than a software package; it puts statistically powerful tools, based on proven and robust approaches, into the hands of ecologists."

Dr Steve Wakelin, Senior Soil Scientist, Environmental Microbiology, Scion Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

"A powerful & intuitive tool for interpreting & communicating patterns in data in a 'language', understandable by both scientists & managers."

Professor Euan Harvey, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

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