Multidimensional Scaling
History, Theory, and Applications
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2017
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-138-46254-0 (ISBN)
Description
This outstanding presentation of the fundamentals of multidimensional scaling illustrates the applicability of MDS to a wide variety of disciplines. The first two sections provide ground work in the history and theory of MDS. The final section applies MDS techniques to such diverse fields as physics, marketing, and political science.
Reviews / Votes
"....it provides a more thorough development of data theory and MDS models than any other source known to us....students from a wide variety of fields should be able to draw upon it for reference."-Applied Psychological Measurement
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-46254-0 (9781138462540)
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01/1987
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Person
Forrest W. Young, Robert M.Hamer
Content
Contents: F.W. Young, Part I: History. Introduction. History. F.W. Young, Part II: Theory. Data Theory. Axiomatic Foundations. Unweighted Distance Models. Weighted Distance Models. Part III: Applications. J.A. Cameron, Nuclear Physics: Pattern Recognition in Nuclear Gamma-ray Spectra. L.M. Collins, Sociometry: Deriving Sociograms via Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling. D.L. Hoffman, W.D. Perreault, Jr., Market Research: Consumer Preference and Perception. D.V. Easterling, Political Science: Using the Generalized Euclidian Model to Study Ideological Shifts in the U.S. Senate. M.R. Jones, R. MacCallum, Psychology: An Application of Principal Directions Scaling to Auditory Pattern Perception. B.H. Forsyth, Psychology: The Subjective Attributes of Natural Categories -- An Application of a Constrained Generalized Euclidian Model.