TY - JOUR AU1 - Davison, Mark L. AB - to Introduction Multidimensional Scaling and Its Applications Mark L. Davison Minnesota University of Richardson and and data and the coordinate Although (1938) Young preference (2) representa- Householder have initiated tions of stimulus structure that result from such (1938) may officially literature in the multidimensional statistical (MDS) scaling techniques. did not to This introduction first reviews the psychology, frequent applications begin briefly past until the seminal on nonmetric 1~I~S 50 of in papers years 1~~~, developments appear developments and Kruskal covered more Coxon Dav- (1962) (1964). Twenty by (19~’~), by Shepard extensively it is time to examine the MDS ison Kruskal and Wish and Schiff- (1993), (1978), later, critically years Then it sum- literature and its contribution to The and man, (1981). psychology. Reynolds, Young follow. first two in this issue review statis- marizes the six that papers special papers tical in MDS with an on developments emphasis MDS studies. The last four the of design papers research in four areas of com- scrutinize the ~11~5 of h4DS mon and consumer, social, application: cognitive, Development vocational psychology. MDS differ on several criteria. The techniques Carroll and Arabie have described two (1980) more common, models to apply symmetric prox- to define TI - Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling and Its Applications JF - Applied Psychological Measurement DO - 10.1177/014662168300700401 DA - 1983-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/introduction-to-multidimensional-scaling-and-its-applications-CHdPdJ0Zfv SP - 373 EP - 379 VL - 7 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -