TY - JOUR T1 - Comparison of Principal Component Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling Methods for Clustering Some Honey Bee Genotypes AU - , Irfan Ozturk AU - , Hikmet Orhan AU - , Zeki Dogan JO - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 413 EP - 419 PY - 2009 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1680-5593 DO - javaa.2009.413.419 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2009.413.419 KW - Multivariate analyses KW -clustering KW -honey bee KW -Apis mellifera L. KW -k-means methods AB - The aim of this study, was to make use of Cluster Analysis, Principal Component Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling for clustering and appointments of the units to the true clusters. The honey bee genotypes (Apis mellifera L.) belonging to 30 provinces of Turkey were clustered according to Cluster Methods cited below. From these methods, McQuitty, Single Linkage, Complete Linkage, Average Linkage and Centroid Linkage showed the similar results and the results were in good agreement for separation graphics obtained by Principal Component Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling Methods while different results were found from median, centroid linkage and k-means methods. ER -