Item Seriation as an Aid for Elementary Scale and Cluster Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, LeRoy Jr.
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-02T20:46:20Z
dc.date.available2016-08-02T20:46:20Z
dc.date.issued1968-09
dc.description56 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractThere are two basic needs which this paper may help to meet. First, seriation is a current issue, or at least a current method, particularly in the literature of anthropology and archaeology. The topic has regrettably never been given ample discussion and the need for such is self-evident. Second, seriation is a logical point at which students of biology, natural history, and social science may be introduced to the useful techniques of scale analysis and cluster analysis, to build an understanding of several of the problems involved in such studies before confronting more elegant techniques of analysis. It is hoped that the sophisticate in numerical analysis will not be impatient, then, with the following exposition, since it is addressed to research workers and students having a minimum acquaintance with numerical analysis. The following discussion will treat seriation from several standpoints, notably (1) its basic nature, (2) its history and treatment in the literature, (3) its problems for computer processing, and (4) its proper use, particularly in conjunction with other aids, in generating overviews for bodies of numerical data.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFunds for publication of Bulletin No. 15 provided by the National Science Foundation grant GS 1413.en_US
dc.identifier.issn00786047
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20008
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMusenm of Natural History, University of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, no. 15;
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectNumerical dataen_US
dc.subjectSeriationen_US
dc.subjectBiologyen_US
dc.subjectAnthropologyen_US
dc.subjectArchaeologyen_US
dc.subjectNatural historyen_US
dc.subjectSocial scienceen_US
dc.subjectComputer processingen_US
dc.subjectNumerical analysisen_US
dc.subjectGenerating overviewsen_US
dc.titleItem Seriation as an Aid for Elementary Scale and Cluster Analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.publisherMuseum of Natural History, University of Oregon

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