ENGLISH

Classification and Dissimilarity Analysis

By Bernard Van Cutsem (eds.) , Bernard Van Cutsem (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1994
ISBN
978-0-387-94400-5, 978-1-4612-2686-4
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-2686-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5936639 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Statistics 93
Edition
1
Pages
238\250
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Description

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.

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