Table 3. The ordered ranking of the 16 analytical (weighting and clustering) approaches employed.
| Matrix | Unweighted | Inverse | Bell | Integration | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clustering | J | K2 | S | PAE | J | K2 | S | PAE | J | K2 | S | PAE | J | K2 | S | PAE |
| # CoE endemics | 10 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 10 |
| # CoE Taxa | 14 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 10 |
| # CoEs | 15 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| # of cells in CoEs | 14 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| Sum of Ranking Score | 53 | 43 | 62 | 58 | 29 | 10 | 39 | 32 | 18 | 7 | 23 | 35 | 36 | 14 | 33 | 40 |
| Rank | 14 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 12 |
Rankings were based on the optimality values in Table 2. The Consensus CoEs / Sub-CoEs were excluded from the ranking assessment. J = Jaccard, K2 = Kulczinsky2, S = Simpson.