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A quick method for making multistate characters out of continuous measurements is described. Following the intuitive method used by taxonomists, which is a kind of discriminant function analysis, we looked for gaps and dips in the frequency curve.
Often in Botany we have the plants pre-assigned to groups, such as populations or species which we wish to classify. For each pre-assigned group, whatever the size, we try to calculate the range, the mean and the standard deviation. These values are represented in a bar diagram. The bar diagrams are then superimposed either on a form of a rough frequency curve or ordered by their means. The position of the bars is used to establish the character-states into which the scale is divided.
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Almeida, M.T., Bisby, F.A. (1983). A Quick Method for Making Multistate Characters out of Continuous Measurements. In: Felsenstein, J. (eds) Numerical Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69024-2_41
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