Abstract Identification of taxa can significantly be assisted by statistical classification based on trait measurements either individually or phylogenetic (clustering) methods. In this article, we present a general Bayesian approach for classifying species mixture continuous and ordinal traits, any type covariates. The vector is derived from latent variable with multivariate Gaussian distribut...

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