Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling: A Numerical Method
1964/06/01 by Joseph B. Kruskal, J. B. Kruskal · 4,905 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Applied mathematics #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #Computer science #Econometrics #Geometry #Mathematics #Multidimensional scaling #Physics #Scaling #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #Statistical physics #Statistics #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
paper · doi:10.1007/bf02289694
published in Psychometrika 29(2), 115-129 (Springer Science+Business Media)
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Abstract
We describe the numerical methods required in our approach to multi-dimensional scaling. The rationale of this approach has appeared previously.
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