Typology of Empirical Attributes : Dissimilarity Linkage Analysis (DLA) / Robert Dubin and Joseph E. Champoux.

Dissimilarity Linkage Analysis (DLA) is an extremely simple procedure for developing a typology from empirical attributes that permits the clustering of entities. First the procedure develops a taxonomy of types from empirical attributes possessed by entities in the sample. Second, the procedure ass...

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Main Authors: Dubin, Robert
Champoux, Joseph E. (Joseph Edward) (Author)
Corporate Author: University of California, Irvine
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1970.
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Physical Description:34 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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