Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is a popular class of methods for understanding the structure of a dataset. The nature of the clustering depends on the choice of linkage—that is, on how one ...

Multivariate analysis in statistics is a set of useful methods for analyzing data when there are more than one variables under consideration. Multivariate analysis techniques may be used for several ...

(1) The application of hierarchical classification to ecological community data is examined, using a variety of classification techniques and test data sets. Problems discussed include: (a) the choice ...

The issue of whether multiple, ipsilateral or bilateral, breast carcinomas represent multiple primary tumours or dissemination of a single carcinomatous process has been difficult to resolve, ...