title: Proximity measures for cluster analysis.
abstract: The present chapter provides the basic information about the measures of proximity between two subjects or groups of subjects. It is obvious that these concepts must be clear in order to apply them to any pattern recognition analysis, both supervised and unsupervised.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Chemistry, Pavia University, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Oliviero
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Carugo
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D057225:Data Mining; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D049490:Systems Biology; D018511:Systems Integration