Biometrical Letters

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Volume (57) Number 2 pp. 89-118

Krzysztof Bartoszek 1, Albin Västerlund 2

1Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, 58183, Linköping, Sweden
2Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, 58183, Linköping, Sweden

“Old Techniques for New Times”: the RMaCzek package for producing Czekanowski’s diagrams

Summary

Inspired by the MaCzek Visual Basic program we pprovide an R package, RMaCzek, that produces Czekanowski’s diagrams. Our package permits any seriation and distance method the user provides. In this paper we focus on the “OLO” and “QAP_2SUM” methods from the seriation package. We illustrate the possibilities of our package with three anthropological studies, one socioeconomic study and a phylogenetically motivated simulation study.

Keywords: Czekanowski’s diagram, distance matrix visualization, matrix reordering, seriation

DOI: 10.2478/bile-2020-0008

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MLA Bartoszek, Krzysztof, and Albin Västerlund. "“Old Techniques for New Times”: the RMaCzek package for producing Czekanowski’s diagrams." Biometrical Letters 57.2 (2020): 89-118. DOI: 10.2478/bile-2020-0008
APA Bartoszek, K., & Västerlund, A. (2020). “Old Techniques for New Times”: the RMaCzek package for producing Czekanowski’s diagrams. Biometrical Letters 57(2), 89-118 DOI: 10.2478/bile-2020-0008
ISO 690 BARTOSZEK, Krzysztof, VäSTERLUND, Albin. “Old Techniques for New Times”: the RMaCzek package for producing Czekanowski’s diagrams. Biometrical Letters, 2020, 57.2: 89-118. DOI: 10.2478/bile-2020-0008