title: Linkage-maps and their relations to linkage cluster procedures.
abstract: Methods of numerical taxonomy should provide a good representation of the relations of the objects and the structure of the groups. Besides dendograms, shade diagrams and minimum spanning trees, linkage-maps are suggested as a good additive tool to accomplish this representation. In this paper linkage-maps and similar technics are described, their relations to some generally known linkage cluster procedures are shown and their advantages are discussed. Their application is demonstrated using a small microbiological data set.
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification*; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D008433:Mathematics