An Introduction to Mathematical Taxonomy (Dover Books on Mathematics) Text is Free of Markings Edition

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

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ISBN-13: 978-0486435879

ISBN-10: 0486477533

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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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Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; Text is Free of Markings edition (January 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486477533
ISBN-13: 978-0486435879
ASIN: 0486435873
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
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Good introduction to classic methods for phylogeny/classification

ByAmazon Customeron December 11, 2011

Format: 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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