Descriptor selection for banana accessions based on univariate and multivariate analysis
“Descriptor selection for banana accessions based on univariate and multivariate analysis”, vol. 12, pp. 1603-1620, 2013.
, Our objective was to establish a minimum number of morphological descriptors for the characterization of banana germplasm and evaluate the efficiency of removal of redundant characters, based on univariate and multivariate statistical analyses. Phenotypic characterization was made of 77 accessions from Bahia, Brazil, using 92 descriptors. The selection of the descriptors was carried out by principal components analysis (quantitative) and by entropy (multi-category).