On the Relationship Between Numerical Taxonomy and the Theory of Economic Indices by Otto Opitz.
Numerical taxonomy (taxonometry, multivariate analysis, data analysis) encompasses many diverse techniques for simplification. Well-defined similarities between different objects (applications in social sciences may relate to: individuals, groups, products, industries, regions, informations, etc.) characterized by certain features or characters are analysed. With the aim of compressing, aggregating, grouping and identifying basic problems numerical divided into object representation, classification, identification. Methods applications originated biology. In meantime they have been applied ecology, psychology, linguistics archaeology, sciences.
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