Distance as a Measure of Taxonomic Similarity
- 1 June 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Systematic Zoology
- Vol. 10 (2), 70-79
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2411724
Abstract
A coefficient of distance between taxa is proposed as an alternative measure of resemblance or similarity in numerical taxonomy. This distance can be computed as the mean sum of squares of the differences between standardized character state codes of the taxa concerned.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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