Abstract
FUSE is a program written in FORTRAN 77 for the agglomerative fusion or cluster analysis of 500 or more individuals on minicomputers. The use of direct-access I/O and a sorted queue enables reasonable execution times to be obtained with minimal memory requirements. Eight of the most popular agglomerative fusion strategies are available through the use of the Flexible Sorting formula; additional methods may be incorporated. Carbonate data of Imbrie and Purdie are used to test the merits of the technique generally, as well as provide discussion for a comparison of different strategies available. A simple space-distortion coefficient (SDC) is introduced to enable quantitative measurement of what previously has been an uncertain effect of application of the various clustering strategies. Measures of internal congruence, here termed fidelity measures, appear useful for comparing various strategies but fail as absolute measures of the value of a classification.
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