multidimensional scaling

Summary

Multidimensional scaling is a method for visualizing similarity between data points by embedding the data into a low-dimensional subspace. The locations are chosen so that the distances in the embedding space match the dissimilarities as closely as possible.

Context

This concept has the prerequisites:

Goals

  • Know what stress function multidimensional scaling is minimizing
  • Understand how it can be used to visualize similarity data
  • Be aware that the exact solution can be computed efficiently

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Supplemental resources (the following are optional, but you may find them useful)

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The Elements of Statistical Learning
A graudate-level statistical learning textbook with a focus on frequentist methods.
Authors: Trevor Hastie,Robert Tibshirani,Jerome Friedman

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