Questions tagged [multi-dimensional-scaling]
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How to carry out multidimensional scaling on 12-nations data set reported by Wish (1971)
I currently self-study multidimensional scaling. Amongst others, I study Borg & Groenen (2005): Modern multidimensional scaling : theory and applications.
On page 10, they present a real-life data set reported by Wish (1971). Wish (1971) asked 18…

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Add categories in MDS plot
I) PROBLEM
Let’s say I have a matrix like this with distances (in kilometers) between the homes of different people.
| | Person 1 | Person 2 | Person 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
| Person 1 | | | …

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Keep indices in a scatter plot of jaccard distance matrix
I have a disstance matrix and I wanted to plot it as 2D scatter plot.
I have found a way through sklearn.manifold:
mds = MDS(n_components=2, dissimilarity='precomputed')
X_r =…

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Bring multiple 2d arrays [][] on same length
i have a huge Problem when dealing with jagged arrays [][].
I wrote a program that interacts with lots of CSV-files. It will read them and then compare them. Now i have a problem if Array A has the dimension of 10 Rows and 10 Columns but Array B…

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axis break in plot metaMDS
I have an abundance table of fungal species from 16 different samples (xylem tree tissue) belonging to three healthy classes.
I want to visualize the similarity of these samples according to the health class.
I have run metaMDS (vegan package) and…

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High-scale signal processing in R
I have high-dimensional data, for brain signals, that I would like to explore using R.
Since I am a data scientist I really do not work with Matlab, but R and Python. Unfortunately, the team I am working with is using Matlab to record the signals.…

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Multidimensional scaling to data in python
I have the following code to apply the multidimensional scaling to sample of data called parkinsonData:
iterations=4
count=0
while(count

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Manually build SIMPER contrast matrix from dataframe R
I am using the simper function from the vegan package. Briefly, simper compares a a set of groups and calculates what variables are contributing most to their dissimilarity, and also by how much, in a column named cusum that gives the cumulative…

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Multidimensional scaling in R (done manually)
How to do multidimensional scaling by iterative majorization in R manually? Does anyone have an idea how to code Guttman`s transform?

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Multi Dimensional Scaling
I'm trying to apply MDS to a distance matrix based on disagreements (namely it is the "voting" dataset in the "HSAUR" package.) I'm trying to reduce it to 2 dimensions and plot without the cmdscale() function, but can't get the same result when I…

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Relation between Centering matrix and multidimensional scaling
I try to understand the steps of multidimensional scaling, and the the method is based on the centering matrix, I do not understand what's his exact role

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Plotly in Shiny Problems
I am having a few problems with my Shiny which uses plotly to present the Multidimensional Scaling results.. Below is my code. An answer to any of my questions would be great, thanks in…

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How can I normalize data to have same average sum of square?
In a lot of articles in my field, this sentence has been repeated: " The 2 matrices has been normalized to have the same average sum-of-squares (computed across all subjects and all voxels for each modality)". Suppose that we have two matrices that…

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How to make a multidimensional Hashtable
I have this data and I need to make an object out of it so I can easily read/write to this object.
I tried to make a dictionary and fill it with hashtables but it is very hard to maintain and I don't even know how to modify the data inside the…

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RandomForest proximity between training and test
Using randomForest, I want to create a low-level projection of the instance proximities, as produced by MDSPlot(). However, I not only want the training proximities, but proximities between all the instances (i.e. training and test). How can I do…

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