A Computer Program for Classifying Plants II. A Numerical Handling of Non-Numerical Data

1 September 1964

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience

Vol. 14 (9) , 15-28
https://doi.org/10.2307/1293281

Abstract

This program attempts to reproduce the methods used by taxonomists in the preparation of a classification of plants, using a computer to aid in the correlation of available bits of information and to provide a classification with the greatest informational content.

Keywords

BITS
ATTEMPTS
REPRODUCE
HANDLING
TAXONOMISTS
COMPUTER PROGRAM
CLASSIFYING PLANTS II
PROGRAM FOR CLASSIFYING

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