Modern Multidimensional Scaling Theory and Applications /

• Main Authors: Borg, Ingwer (Author), Groenen, Patrick J. F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Springer Series in Statistics,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Marketing.; Pattern recognition.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Pattern Recognition.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.

The book provides a comprehensive treatment of multidimensional scaling (MDS), a family of statistical techniques for analyzing the structure of (dis)similarity data. Such data are widespread, including, for example, intercorrelations of survey items, direct ratings on the similarity on choice objec...