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IT is often proposed by taxonomists and ecologists that classifications and other related analyses should be based on the possible largest number of characters. They believe that when large character sets are used the analysis will gain in accuracy, and the results will be more broadly applicable. Yet sampling, computational and other logistic problems are often associated with the handling of large character sets. Some characters may have to be deleted in the interest of more economical sampling and computations.
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ORLOCI, L. Ranking Characters by a Dispersion Criterion. Nature 244, 371–373 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244371a0
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