To publish original and valuable papers in the field of classification numerical taxonomy multidimensional scaling and other ordination techniques clustering tree structures and other network models (with somewhat less emphasis on principal components analysis factor analysis and discriminant analysis) as well as associated models and algorithms for fitting them. Articles will support advances in methodology while demonstrating compelling substantive applications. Comprehensive review articles are also acceptable. Contributions will represent disciplines such as statistics psychology biology information retrieval anthropology archeology astronomy business chemistry computer science economics engineering geography geology linguistics marketing mathematics medicine political science psychiatry sociology and soil science.