On goodness-of-fit measure for dendrogram-based analyses

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1850-1859

  Merigot B ^a,b   Durbec, Jean Pierre ^a   Gaertner, Jean Claude ^a  

^a STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

Clustering; Dendrogram; Functional classification; Functional diversity; Matrix norm

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GENOTYPE; MARKET SYSTEM; MATRIX; MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953267278     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1387.1     Document Type: Article

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