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The diagnostic value of qualitative and quantitative characters in computer identification keys

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A new method for estimating the diagnostic value of characters for computer keys to biological objects is proposed. The algorithm described can be used for correct comparison of qualitative and quantitative characters. A brief review of the history of biological diagnostics is given.

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Original Russian Text © A.L. Lobanov, 2015, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2015, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 197–202.

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Lobanov, A.L. The diagnostic value of qualitative and quantitative characters in computer identification keys. Entmol. Rev. 95, 285–288 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815020128

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