See: Kulczynski, S. 1927. Die Pflanzenassoziationen der Pienienen. Bull. Intern. Acad. Pol. Sci. Lett. Cl. Sci. Math. Nat., B (Sci. Nat.), 1927 (Suppl. 2):57-203.
There are actually two coefficients. The first is the number of positive matches divided by the number of mismatches. The second is the average of the proportion of matches for the first object and the proportion of matches for the second object. They are available in the NTSYSpc software. Jim ---------------------- F. James Rohlf, Distinguished Professor Dept. Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, NY 11794-5245 From: Classification, clustering, and phylogeny estimation [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shannon, William Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Kulczynski's quantitative symmetric measure Who has heard of Kulczynski's quantitative symmetric measure. Not finding a lot yet in my online search. It was suggested as a possible measure for some genetic data we are generating. Thank you. Bill Shannon, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO 314-454-8356 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
