Gordon, A. D. A review of hierarchical classification. (English) Zbl 0616.62086 J. R. Stat. Soc., Ser. A 150, 119-137 (1987). A review is presented of methods of summarizing the relationships within a set of objects by a set of hierarchically-nested classes of similar objects, representable by a rooted tree diagram. Material covered includes algorithms for obaining tree diagrams, comments on the selection of appropriate methods of analysis and the validation of classifications, distributions of different types of tree, and consensus trees. Cited in 29 Documents MSC: 62H30 Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) Keywords:hierarchical classification; cluster analysis; dendrograms; ultrametric inequality; review paper; hierarchically-nested sets of partitions; rooted tree diagram; validation of classifications; consensus trees PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{A. D. Gordon}, J. R. Stat. Soc., Ser. A 150, 119--137 (1987; Zbl 0616.62086) Full Text: DOI