Everything about Multidimensional scaling

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Multidimensional scalingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Multidimensional Scaling of Varietal Data in Sedimentary Provenance AnalysisInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Graph-theoretic techniques for web content miningThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Multidimensional Scaling by Optimizing Goodness of Fit to a Nonmetric HypothesisCited 5,613 times
5. Go sideways: Nonlinear dimensionality reductionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: IsomapA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Multidimensional Scaling by Optimizing Goodness of Fit to a Nonmetric Hypothesis

  J. B. Kruskal · 1964 · Psychometrika · 5,613 citations

• Analysis of Individual Differences in Multidimensional Scaling Via an N-way Generalization of “Eckart-Young” Decomposition

  J. Douglas Carroll, Jih-Jie Chang · 1970 · Psychometrika · 3,806 citations

• Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling: A Numerical Method

  J. B. Kruskal · 1964 · Psychometrika · 3,728 citations

• A TYPOLOGY OF DEVIANT WORKPLACE BEHAVIORS: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING STUDY.

  S. L. ROBINSON, R. J. BENNETT · 1995 · Academy of Management Journal · 3,160 citations

• Multidimensional Scaling: I. Theory and Method

  Warren S. Torgerson · 1952 · Psychometrika · 1,783 citations

• The Analysis of Proximities: Multidimensional Scaling with an Unknown Distance Function. I.

  Roger N. Shepard · 1962 · Psychometrika · 1,686 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Multidimensional Scaling of Varietal Data in Sedimentary Provenance Analysis

  P. Vermeesch, A. G. Lipp, D. Hatzenbühler · 2023 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface · 24 citations

• Generating semantic maps through multidimensional scaling: linguistic applications and theory

  Martijn van der Klis, Jos Tellings · 2022 · Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory · 20 citations

• Multidimensional scaling for big data

  Pedro Delicado, Cristian Pachón-García · 2024 · Advances in Data Analysis and Classification · 17 citations

• Robust Multi-Target Localization in ISAC Systems: Leveraging Multidimensional Scaling

  Ruhul Amin Khalil, Nasir Saeed · 2024 · IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society · 14 citations

• Statistical Significance of Clustering with Multidimensional Scaling

  Hui Shen, Shankar Bhamidi, Yufeng Liu · 2023 · Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics · 12 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Graph-theoretic techniques for web content miningAbraham Kandel, Bunke, Horst · 2005
• 📕The use of multidimensional scaling and Euclidean regression in the analysis of outdoor recreation use patternsCharles Andrew Pella · 1986
• Modern multidimensional scalingIngwer Borg, Patrick Groenen · 1996
• 📕Ties in rank-order data and dual scalingLiqun Xu · 1993
• Multidimensional scalingMark L. Davison · 1983
• Multiple scalingSamuel Shye · 1985
• Multidimensional scaling of binary data for homogeneous groupsRobert Redinger · 1976
• Multidimensional scaling of binary data for homogeneous groupsRobert Redinger · 1977

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