Distances Between Garlic Cultivars

The data give the squared generalized Mahalanobis distances between 17 garlic cultivars. The data are taken from the article published by Silva & Dias (2013).

data(garlicdist)

Format

An object of class "dist" based on 17 objects.

Source

Silva, A.R. & Dias, C.T.S. (2013) A cophenetic correlation coefficient for Tocher's method. Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira, 48:589-596.

Examples

data(garlicdist)
tocher(garlicdist)
#> 
#>           Tocher's Clustering 
#> 
#> Call: tocher.dist(d = garlicdist)
#> 
#> Cluster algorithm: original 
#> Number of objects: 17 
#> Number of clusters: 6 
#> Most contrasting clusters: cluster 3 and cluster 5, with 
#>    average intercluster distance: 11.78786
#> 
#> $`cluster 1`
#> [1] 8  9  12 4  10 2  7  15
#> 
#> $`cluster 2`
#> [1] 1  6  14
#> 
#> $`cluster 3`
#> [1] 11 13
#> 
#> $`cluster 4`
#> [1] 3 5
#> 
#> $`cluster 5`
#> [1] 16
#> 
#> $`cluster 6`
#> [1] 17
#> 

# End (not run)