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the clusters (Table 2.5b). Figure 2.5 shows an example of the hierarchical
crispy diversity profi les in function of the parameter α and a.
Figure 2.4 a) An hypothetical map representing an environmental sampling unit with 16
objects corresponding to a sample done for describing the unit, and b) the dendrogram
showing the similarity between the objects describing the sampling unit according to a matrix
of k characters.
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