A MEASURE of the extent to which an individual differs from the norm of a population, taking many attributes into account, would often be useful in numerical taxonomy. With metrical attributes, the ...

CRUDE forms of numerical tabulation were used as far back as the 1890s in efforts to determine genuineness or relative chronology of ancient writings, for example, by Lutoslawski 1 for the dialogues ...

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