Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 16, No. 5 (Oct., 2005), pp. 497-510 (14 pages) Questions: Are ordinal data appropriately treated by multivariate methods in numerical ecology? If not, what are the ...

A test is made of the hypothesis that little error is introduced into multivariate analysis by the assignment of a linear metric to ordinal data. It is shown that ...

Many economically important characteristics of agricultural crops are measured as ordinal traits. Statistical analysis of the genetic basis of ordinal traits appears to be quite different from regular ...