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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: neural nets in taxonomy
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In article <4332rp$fl0@net.bio.net>, minch@lotka.stanford.edu writes:
|> I'm about to start some work applying neural network models to problems in
|> taxonomy and systematics. The last time I played with NNs was over five
|> years ago, and I haven't really kept up. If anyone knows of work of this
|> type--even in progress, even classification rather than phylogeny--I'd be
|> grateful for a tip.

Neural network methods for taxonomy are generally slow and ineffective
compared to methods in the numerical taxonomy and statistical clustering
literature. See, for example:

   Balakrishnan, P.V., Cooper, M.C., Jacob, V.S., and Lewis, P.A. (1994)
   "A study of the classification capabilities of neural networks using
   unsupervised learning: A comparison with k-means clustering",
   Psychometrika, 59, 509-525.

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