We are presently witnessing a renaissance of research on emotion. In the last 10 years, an
increasing number of empirical studies dealing with many different aspects of emotion has …

Page 1 MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING JOSEPH B. KRUSKAL MYRON WISH Series:
Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Editor: Eric M. Uslaner Sa SAGE …

Multidimensionalscaling (MDS) isatechniquefortheanalysisofsimilarity or dissimilarity data
on a set of objects. Such data may be intercorrelations of test items, ratings of similarity on …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

Not so long ago, multivariate analysis consisted solely of linear methods illustrated on small
to medium-sized data sets. Moreover, statistical computing meant primarily batch processing …

Multivariate analysis plays an important role in the understanding of complex data sets
requiring simultaneous examination of all variables. Breaking through the apparent disorder …

A strategy is presented for analysing marine biological survey data and relating the biotic
patterns to environmental data. To avoid circular argument, biotic and environmental data …

The growing popularity of social media networks enables individuals to acquire large
audiences of up to several million people on these platforms. Companies are starting to …

The large, sparse arrays of species counts arising in both field and experimental community
studies do not lend themselves to standard statistical tests based on multivariate normality …

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 …