The Computer Journal 1971 14(4):404-406; doi:10.1093/comjnl/14.4.404
© 1971 by British Computer Society
Choice of methods for automatic classification*
N. Jardine
and
R. Sibson
King's College Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
We examine the controversial issue of criteria of adequacy for methods of automatic classification, and we suggest that the issue can be partially resolved by considering the various purposes for which scientists classify.
Received May 1971.
* This article is a further contribution to the discussion promoted in Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 156-165.
King's College Research Centre, Cambridge

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