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mutation.distances.1967: Hartigan (1975) Mutation Distances

Description

The table contains mutation distance between pairs of species. This is Table 11.12 in Chapter of Hartigan (1975) on page 209.

Usage

data(mutation.distances.1967)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 22 variables.
code
a character vector for specifies identifier
species
a character vector fir the species name
s.1
a numeric vector for distance to species 1
s.2
a numeric vector for distance to species 2
s.3
a numeric vector for distance to species 3
s.4
a numeric vector for distance to species 4
s.5
a numeric vector for distance to species 5
s.6
a numeric vector for distance to species 6
s.7
a numeric vector for distance to species 7
s.8
a numeric vector for distance to species 8
s.9
a numeric vector for distance to species 9
s.10
a numeric vector for distance to species 10
s.11
a numeric vector for distance to species 11
s.12
a numeric vector for distance to species 12
s.13
a numeric vector for distance to species 13
s.14
a numeric vector for distance to species 14
s.15
a numeric vector for distance to species 15
s.16
a numeric vector for distance to species 16
s.17
a numeric vector for distance to species 17
s.18
a numeric vector for distance to species 18
s.19
a numeric vector for distance to species 19
s.20
a numeric vector for distance to species 20

Source

Fitch and Margoliash (1967) Science SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

The distance is defined by the number of positions in the protein molecule ccytochrome-c where the two species have differnt amino acides. Hartigan uses the single-linkage algorithm on this dat set.

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

Run this code
data(mutation.distances.1967)

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