Thank you Ian,
I'm attempting to run a PERMANOVA in JMP instead of Qiime to look at the differences in community composition among different microbial samples based on different factors. Most of the factors I would like to test are nominal and ordinal variables.
Ex- Do breast-fed infant microbiomes differ in community composition from formula-fed infants at different ages?
The feeding variable has three nominal categories “Breast,” “Formula” and “Mixture,” and the age group variable has four levels (0-3 mo., 4-7 mo, 8-11 mo or 12+ mo). Specifically I'd like to test if breast fed infants (0-3mo) differ from formula fed infants of the same age group, and so on.
Another variable is an ordinal scale of household cleanliness 0-2.
I would also like to test the analysis of similarity (ANOSIM) if possible.