Original sentence: Although intended as an objective method, in practice the choice and implicit weighing of characteristics is influenced by available data and research interests of the investigator.What was made objective was the introduction of explicit steps to be used to create dendrograms and cladograms using numerical methods rather than subjective synthesis of data
Edited sentence: Although intended as an objective classification method, in practice the choice and implicit weighing of characteristics is, of course, influenced by available data and research interests of the investigator.Hierarchical clustering.Hierarchical clustering of networks.Nearest neighbor search.What was made objective was the introduction of explicit steps to be used to create phenograms and cladograms using numerical methods rather than subjective synthesis of data