Comparison of Reseults using Average Taxonomic Distance and Correlation Coefficient Matrices for Cluster Analyses

Cluster Analyses에서 Average Taxonomic Distance와 Correlation Coefficient 행렬식들을 이용한 결과의 비교

It has been confirmed that two dendrograms resulted from two similarity matrices, average taxonomic distance and correlation coefficient matrices, are different with each other when cluster analyses were performed with 571 adults of deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus using 30 morphometric characters. To choose one of two similarity matrices mentioned above in order to construct a dendrogram representing phenetic relationships among taxa, an objective method using the result from principal component analysis as a standard result to compare with two matrices has been suggested.

Deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus, 의 성체 571마리의 30개 morphometric 형질들을 이용한 cluster analyses에서 두가지의 similarity 행렬식 (Average taxonomic distance와 Correlation coefficient 행렬식)을 이용한 dendrogram이 서로 다르다는 것이 확인되었다. 이들 두가지의 행렬식 중에서 taxarks의 형태적인 유연관계를 나타내는 하나의 dendrogram만을 선택하기 위한 한 객관적방법이 제안되었다. 즉 principal component analysis에 의한 결과를 비교할 표준결과로 이용하는 방법이다.