Introduction to Classifications with an Emphasis on Soil Taxonomies

Classification is a vast theme, which includes concepts ranging from basic perceptions and logic to routine procedures of separation and clustering. We start to classify objects in early childhood, and keep doing it all of our life; in fact, classification is one of the more important human tools for understanding the world (Kemp and Tenenbaum, 2008). In statistics, classification is a method for grouping objects (Good, 1965); though relatively simple in its basis, the procedures have many complications and the subject is studied, discussed and improved.