On the indeterminacy of resemblance measures for binary (presence/absence) data

Journal of Classification

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-136

  Warrens, Matthijs J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Association coefficients; Critical cases; Indeterminate values

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349103080     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: 14321343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-008-9006-8     Document Type: Article

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