COEFFICIENTS OF ASSOCIATION AND SIMILARITY, BASED ON BINARY (PRESENCE‐ABSENCE) DATA: AN EVALUATION

Forty‐three association (similarity) coefficients were collected and evaluated in this survey. Some of them are synonyms or direct correlates with earlier described indices (A8, A9, A12, A31, A33), others are mere transforms from one range of values to another (A10, A24, A33). Several coefficients are incompatible with suggested admissibility conditions of the minimum‐maximum value (A13, A16, A27, A28, A29, A31), symmetry (A1, A2, A13, A16, A26), discrimination between positive and negative association (A27, A28, A31) or monotonicity with (χ2) (A19, to A24); A17 yields very low and erratic values.

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