Assessing the efficiency of clustering algorithms and goodness-of-fit measures using phytoplankton field data

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-68

  Carteron, Alexis ^a,b   Jeanmougin, Martin ^a,b   Leprieur, Fabien ^c   Spatharis, Sofie ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

2 norm; Beta diversity; Cophenetic correlation coefficient; Dendrogram; UPGMA; Ward's algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; METAPOPULATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

EID: 84859931896     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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