A Review of Hierarchical Classification

A review is presented of methods of summarizing the relationships within a set of objects by a set of hierarchically-nested classes of similar objects, representable by a rooted tree diagram. Material covered includes algorithms for obtaining tree diagrams, comments on the selection of appropriate m...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General). - Royal Statistical Society, 1948. - 150(1987), 2, Seite 119-137
1. Verfasser: Gordon, A. D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1987
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)
Schlagworte:Classification Cluster Analysis Consensus Trees Dendrograms Hierarchical Classification N-Trees Ultrametric Inequality Validation Information science Mathematics mehr... Applied sciences Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Philosophy