Numerical taxonomy and the principle of maximum entropy

DOI10.1007/BF01246099zbMath0868.92002MaRDI QIDQ1126398

Mats Gyllenberg, Timo Koski

Publication date: 8 December 1996

Published in: Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

classificationHellinger distanceclusteringmaximum entropyHamming distanceBhattacharyya coefficientbinary vectorsasymptotic separateness of maximum entropy distributionshypothetical mean organismidentification errorsmaximal predictivitymixture of multivariate Bernoulli distributionsmonothetic classespolythetic taxa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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