Analysis of Amphibian Biodiversity Data.
Traditional citation: Hayek, L.-A. C. 1994. Analysis of amphibian biodiversity data. Pp. 207-269. In: Measuring and monitoring miological diversity. Standard methods for amphibians. W. R. Heyer et al., eds. (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.).
Important for two reasons:
- it gathers together forty-six (46) similarity measures (yes, 46 of them)
- illustrates that reading broadly is useful in topic maps work
Questions:
- From Hayek, which measures would you want to use building your topic map? Why? (3-5 pages, no citations)
- What measures developed after Hayek would you want to use? (specific to your data) (3-5 pages, citations)
- Just curious, we talk about algorithms “measuring” similarity. Pick two things, books, articles, whatever that you think are “similar.” Would any of these algorithms say they were similar? (3-5 pages, no citations. Yes, it is a hard question.)
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