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A “Natural” Agglomerative Clustering Method for Biology

✍ Scribed by Dr. L. Dragomirescu; Prof. Dr. T. Postelnicu

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
450 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0323-3847

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✦ Synopsis

The authors consider thut cluster analysis does not objectivize but represents the biologist's subjectivity as to (1) characters considcred to be significant and to (2) the way of classification. The latter, however, in authors' opiniin, must be specific to the field of application. To this effect some methods are suggested for biology. The methods originate in impiovements or transformation of Buser and Baroni-Urbani's method, as well as Wotonabe's method, and have the property of processing overall information with no lose or distortion. An agglomeiative method which yields a necessarily unique result is suggested, being considered by the authors as a homologue of Watanabe's divisive method. The methods proposed are studied using examples logically constructed. These examples can provide from biology, especially from ecology.

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