Internet Technology: Proven Strategies that Solidify the Patient-Physician Partnership and Improve Patient Health Outcomes

s MEDNET 2000: Poster presentations 219 whereby a set of individuals or units, termed as “Operational Taxonomic Units” (OTU). Techniques of cluster analysis can be applied in different fields of medicine: the recognition of various clinical forms of a disease, separation of distinctive racial groups, treatment of quantitative biogeographical data, etc. Results: An important case for statistical data processing deals with OTUs described by binary attributes. Homogeneities for binary and for ordered multistates data are presented. Methods of automatic classification are described and two types of homogeneities for the classification in biology and the genetics of the human populations are given. Discussion: The new extension concerns the inference in contingency table and it is applicable in any field. The connection between numerical taxonomy, one side, and the cluster analysis, as well as the discriminant analysis, on the other side, is useful to be considered.