Classification Society Library

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• H.H. Bock, Automatische Klassifikation, 1974.
  Files, in PDF format, are stored by chapter.
  You may access the files through the bookmarks in Inhalt, or through the following html links:
  Inhalt, Titel_Vorwort, Problemstellung, Kapitel 1, Kapitel 2, Kapitel 3, Kapitel 4, Kapitel 5, Kapitel 6, Kapitel 7,
  Kapitel 8, Kapitel 9, Anhang, Literaturverzeichnis, Autorenverzeichnis, Stichvortverzeichnis
  

  All in one zip file.

• I.C. Lerman, Classification et Analyse Ordinale des Données, 1981.
  Files are stored by chapter. You may access the files through the bookmarks in Couvres-livres et Table des matières, or through the following html links:
  Introduction.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 0.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 1.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 2.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 3.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 4.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 5.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 6.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 7.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 8.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 9.pdf,
  Partie I, Chapitre 10.pdf,
  Partie II, Préambule.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 11.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 12.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 13.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 14.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 15.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 16.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 17.pdf,
  Partie II, Chapitre 18.pdf,
  Adfile2.pdf - Références, mises à jour en juin 2010 / updated June 2010.
  

  All in one zip file.

• J.A. Hartigan, Clustering Algorithms, 1975.
  Files are stored by chapter. You may access the files through the bookmarks in Table of Contents, or through the following html links:
  Title Pages, Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16,
  Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Index.

  Some updates for Hartigan (1975), compiled by Phipps Arabie, include:
  
  P. 32, line preceding "Step 1", Maurer is not cited.
  [John Hartigan notes: this is Willi Maurer, Switzerland.]
  
  P. 130, l. 6, K**M should instead be: K**M/K!
  
  P. 132: l. -3: 126 should be 136.
  
  P. 164: the updates of Bertin (1967) are:
  
  BERTIN, J. (1973), Sémiologie graphique (2nd edition). Paris: Gauthier-Villars.
  BERTIN, J. (1983), Semiology of Graphics [translated by William J. Berg]. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
  
  P. 193, Table 11.2. It would be helpful to the reader to be told that the sequence is:
  1 2
  3 4
  5
  

  All in one zip file.

• F. Murtagh, Multidimensional Clustering Algorithms, 1985.
  Files are stored by chapter. You may access the files through the bookmarks in Contents, or through the following html links:
  Titlepages and Preface,
  Chapter 1, Algorithms and Applications,
  Chapter 2, Fast Nearest Neigbour Searching,
  Chapter 3, Synoptic Clustering,
  Chapter 4, Connectivity Clustering,
  Chapter 5, New Clustering Problems
  

  All in one zip file.

• Robert R. Sokal and Peter H.A. Sneath, Principles of Numerical Taxonomy, W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, 1963, pp. 359.
  Title, preface,
  Contents,
  Chapter 1, Introduction,
  Chapter 2, A Critique of Current Taxonomy,
  Chapter 3, New Methods in Taxonomy,
  Chapter 4, The Aims and Principles of Numerical Taxonomy,
  Chapter 5, Taxonomic Evidence: Characters and Taxa,
  Chapter 6, The Estimation of Taxonomic Rasemblance ,
  Chapter 7, The Construction of a Taxonomic System ,
  Chapter 8, Phylogenetic Considerations,
  Chapter 9, Problems of Nomenclature,
  Chapter 10, Present Problems and Some Future Prospects ,
  Appendix, Computational Methods for Numerical Taxonomy ,
  References,
  Author index,
  Subject index

  All in one zip file.

• Peter H.A. Sneath and Robert R. Sokal, Numerical Taxonomy: The Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification, W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, 1973, pp. 573.
  Title, contents, preface,
  Chapter 1, The Aims and Principles of Numerical Taxonomy,
  Chapter 2, Taxonomic Principles,
  Chapter 3, Taxonomic Evidence,
  Chapter 4, The Estimation of Taxonomic Resemblance,
  Chapter 5, Taxonomic Structure,
  Chapter 6, The Study of Phylogeny ,
  Chapter 7, Population Phenetics,
  Chapter 8, Identification and Discrimination,
  Chapter 9, Implications of Nomenclature ,
  Chapter 10, A Critical Examination of Numerical Taxonomy ,
  Chapter 11, Numerical Taxonomy in Fields Other than Biological Systematics,
  Chapter 12, The Future of Systematics,
  Appendix A, Applications of Numerical Taxonomy to Biological Systematics,
  Appendix B, Some Hints on Techniques, Sources, and References,
  Bibliography,
  Author index,
  Subject index

  All in one zip file.

• A.K. Jain and R.C. Dubes, Algorithms for Clustering Data, 1988.
  Available in one file

• C.J. van Rijsbergen, Information Retrieval, 1975.
  Files are stored by chapter.
  You may access the files through the bookmarks in Preface and Contents, or through the following html links:
  Preface and Contents, One: Introduction, Two: Automatic Text Analysis, Three: Automatic Classification, Four: File Structures, Five: Search Strategies, Six: Probabilistic Retrieval, Seven: Evaluation, Eight: The Future, Bibliography.

  All in one zip file.