An Introduction to Mathematical Taxonomy [Paperback]

G. Dunn (Author), B. S. Everitt (Author)

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (Jan 15 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486435873
ISBN-13: 978-0486435879
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm
Shipping Weight: 181 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,175,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Students of mathematical biology discover modern methods of taxonomy with this text, which introduces taxonomic characters, the measurement of similarity, and the analysis of principal components. Other topics include multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, identification and assignment techniques, more. A familiarity with matrix algebra and elementary statistics are the sole prerequisites.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to classic methods for phylogeny/classification, Dec 11 2011

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This review is from: An Introduction to Mathematical Taxonomy (Paperback)

I like this little old book. It gives a simple introduction to characteristic based classification methods. The book is very readable and the math presented is fairly easy to understand. The chapters cover the following:

[1] Introduction
[2] Taxonomic characters
[3] Measures of similarity
[4] Principal components analysis
[5] Multidimensional scaling
[6] Cluster analysis
[7] Identification and assignment techniques
[8] Constructing evolutionary trees

One caveat, because the copyright is old (1982) many more recently developed methods [such as neighbor-joining, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian methods] are not mentioned while others [parsimony] are only mention casually. However the treatment of classic distance clustering methods is fairly good.

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