Data mining, nonmetric multidimensional scaling

NONMETRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING AS A DATA-MINING TOOL NEW ALGORITHM AND NEW TARGETS... 

In this chapter, we would like to demonstrate that one of the very old MVA tools, nonmetric multidimensional scaling (nMDS) [3], can work well as an unsupervised truly data-driven method for data reduction. We first explain an efficient maximally nonmetric algorithm [4] and then demonstrate its superiority to linear MVA methods. We also demonstrate that the subsequent application of linear MVA after data reduction by nMDS can often be a powerful data mining technique. 

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