Numerical Taxonomy: The Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification (A Series of books in biology)

Peter H.a. Sneath, Robert R. Sokal. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 488-547) And Index. Textbook on the theory and methodology of numerical classification, with particular reference to taxonometric statistical computing and mathematical modelling - covers definitions and procedures, and reviews applications of taxonomy to biological systematics and, in less detail, to ecology, medicine, the social sciences, etc. Bibliography pp. 488 to 547 and diagrams Pp. xv, 573, numerous text-figs. Decorated cloth, lg 8vo.