Communication Research: MDS, Mutli-Dimensional Scaling

MDS ¶

Stress ¶

$\text{stress} = \sqrt{\frac{\Sigma\Sigma(f(x_{ij})-d_{ij})^2}{\text{scale}}}$
$\text{stress 1} = \sqrt{\frac{\Sigma\Sigma(f(x_{ij})-d_{ij})^2}{\Sigma (d_{ij})^2}}$

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Reading ¶

Multidimensional Scaling, Katrijn Van Deun, Luc Delbeke
Multidimensional Scaling, StatSoft, Inc.
Borgatti's explanation about MDS