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 ...

Various methods of summarizing phenetic relationships are briefly reviewed (including a comparison of principal components analysis and non-metric scaling). Sequential agglomerative hierarchical ...

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 ...