TY - JOUR AU - Núñez-Colín, Carlos Alberto AU - Escobedo-López, Diana PY - 2011/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Proper use of the cluster analysis in plant germplasm characterization. JF - Agronomía Mesoamericana JA - Agron. Mesoam. VL - 22 IS - 2 SE - Analyzes and Comments DO - 10.15517/am.v22i2.8746 UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/agromeso/article/view/8746 SP - 415-427 AB - The present essay aims to make a recompilation of basic information to properly perform the cluster analysis. This multivariate method allows making groups and it is widely used in studies of genetic resources<br />characterization. It is mentioned topics like the data types<br />to use, similarity and dissimilarity indices, agglomerative<br />methods, and the correct way to establish the number of<br />groups into a dendrogram. ER -