Department of Agricultural Statistics, College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University, Yrichur.
A new computer oriented iterative algorithm for formation of clusters using Mahalanobis D2 values is proposed. The procedure is free from the drawbacks of Tocher's method of clusteringusing D2values,viz., i) the stoppingrulefor formation of anyclusteris arbitrary, and ii) of ten a genotype belonging to a cluster has on the average a smaller D2 value with the genotypes of a different cluster than the one it belongs to.
Mahalanobis D2, clustering, iterative algorithm
