Patterns of sensitivity of association measures in numerical taxonomy (Q790734)
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Patterns of sensitivity of association measures in numerical taxonomy (English)
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1984
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I report here a general model, for a class of measures, that reveals basic patterns of sensitivity that underlie a wide variety of common measures and shows that there is a continuum of potential association measures which exhibit useful combinations of sensitivities. I distinguish between ''separation'' sensitive and ''minimum value'' sensitive measures and describe a new measure that is intermediate in exhibiting both minimum value and separation sensitivity. The utility of this new type of measure in three disciplines - ecology, psychology, and systematics - is briefly described.
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association measures
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numerical taxonomy
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separation sensitivity
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similarity measure
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minimum value sensitivity
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