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cluster I fits into the Ch'u-chia-ling culture, cluster II

fits into the Liang-chu culture, cluster III fits into

the T»an-shih-shan culture and cluster IV fits into the

Ta-wen-k*ou culture. Nevertheless, the traditional Chiang-

pei type of the Ch^ing-lien-kang culture is shared "by cluster

V and VII i n the dendrogram of the cluster analysis. On

the other hand, the Feng-pi-t»ou site in Southeast Taiwan

and the traditional Chiang-nan type of the Ch'ing-lien-kang

culture are ^grouped into a single cluster (VI).

The multidimensional scaling of these sites has also

been carried out. This complicated process also depends

on the manipulation of a computer. The computer program

written for these multidimensional scalings is based on

Torgerson's method ( 1 9 5 2 , 1 9 5 8 ) . "£» •• .r.aliai^u®, a

"In this technique, a matrix of the products of the
distance from the centroid or origin of the configura-

tion i s calculated from a distance matrix. This product
matrix then canlbe solved for the eigenvectors. The
resulting factor matrix i s the solution configuration,
with the first factor being the most important axis,
the second the next most important, and so on"

(Matson & True 1974: 6 4 ) .

The solution configurations do not quite f i t the traditional

classification. The percentage of trace of the first 4