Table 1 Comparison between human-perceived colour categories and Mclust-defined groups, the latter based on the output of a principal components analysis of the xyz values

From: Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis

  

Colour (human)

Colour (Mclust)

 

Yellow

Pink

Brown

Total

% total misclassified

 

Yellow

495

44

0

539

8.2

Pink

118

379

14

511

25.8

Brown

9

90

23

122

81.1

Total

622

513

37

  
  1. Shells that were scored the same are on the diagonal (in bold). Yellow and pink were most common, and so the absolute number of discordant scores was relatively low. Brown had by far the highest proportion of discordant scores
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