Dissimilarity: To Configuration (monotone mds)...

A command that creates a Configuration object from a Dissimilarity object.

Dissimilarities δij and disparities d′ij are related by:

d′ij ≤ d′kl if δij ≤ δkl

## Settings

Number of dimensions
  determines the number of dimensions of the configuration.
Handling of ties
  When dissimilarities are equal, i.e., δij = δkl, the primary approach imposes no conditions on the corresponding disparities d′ij and d′kl, while the secondary approach demands that also d′ij = d′kl.

Finding the optimal Configuration involves a minimization process:

Tolerance
  When successive values for the stress differ less than Tolerance the minimization process stops.
Maximum number of iterations
  Minimization stops after this number of iterations has been reached.
Number of repetitions
  When chosen larger than 1, the minimalization process will be repeated, each time with another random start configuration. The configuration that results in minimum stress will be saved.

### Links to this page

- Dissimilarity & Configuration & Weight: To Configuration...
- Dissimilarity & Weight: To Configuration...
- Dissimilarity & Weight: To Configuration...
- Kruskal analysis
- Multidimensional scaling