A new procedure to optimize the selection of groups in a classification tree: Applications for ecological data

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-461

  Guidi, Lionel ^a,b,c   Ibanez, Frédéric ^a,b   Calcagno, Vincent ^d   Beaugrand, Grégory ^e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Clustering; Dendrogram; Outliers; Stopping rule

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTERING; DENDROGRAM; OUTLIERS; STOPPING RULE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTACEAN; GROUP SELECTION; OPTIMIZATION; OUTLIER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA;

EID: 59149096358     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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