Classification and Dissimilarity Analysis

238 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Classifying objects according to their likeness seems to have been a step in the human process of acquiring knowledge, and it is certainly a basic part of many of the sciences. Historically, the scientific process has involved classification and organization particularly in sciences such as botany, geology, astronomy, and linguistics. In a modern context, we may view classification as deriving a hierarchical clustering of objects. Thus, classification is close to factorial analysis methods and to multi-dimensional scaling methods. It provides a mathematical underpinning to the analysis of dissimilarities between objects.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Statistics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Mathematik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik
• ISBN: 9780387944005
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.10.1994
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer US
• Herausgegeben von: Bernard van Cutsem