A test is made of the hypothesis that little error is introduced into multivariate analysis by the assignment of a linear metric to ordinal data. It is shown that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article investigates whether the Braun-Blanquet abundance/dominance (AD) scores that commonly appear in phytosociological tables can ...

Many economically important characteristics of agricultural crops are measured as ordinal traits. Statistical analysis of the genetic basis of ordinal traits appears to be quite different from regular ...