Patterns of sensitivity of association measures in numerical taxonomy

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(84)90085-3MaRDI QIDQ790734zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel P. Faith

Publication date 1984

Published in Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(84)90085-3

zbMATH Keywords

association measuresminimum value sensitivitynumerical taxonomyseparation sensitivitysimilarity measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Other natural sciences (mathematical treatment) (92F05)

Review text

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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