Suggested answers for case study 7


Jaccard and Dice coefficients

An example of very similar localities is the triplet 26-27-28.

Cluster analysis

Samples from the Edgewood province (33-34-35) cluster together. The samples from the Bani province group together reasonably well (in two clusters close to the root), but with the inclusion of sample 22 from the Kosov province. All in all, the dendrogram is not very well resolved.

Seriation

It is difficult to get much out of the seriation method in this case, except for some details such as the 'equatorial' samples 33-35 ending up at one end of the ordination, as one could hope.