How do you set up a multivariate analysis in Statistica for biological data

[Eric Zimdars]

Working with a biological datasetthatcontains 50+ different kindsof genera from spatially unique positions in a definedstudy area, how does one a.)populate the workbook with the biological data (names of genera) to create a matrix that is readable by the Statistica software, andb.) create a figure that displays X-Y ordination, depicting distributions based on variables such as taxonomic groups, location within the study area, etc.