helm: Helm's color data
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Helm's color data

Description

Contains dissimilarity data for individual difference scaling from an experiment carried out by Helm (1959).

Usage

data(helm)

Format

List containing objects of class dist

Details

A detailed description of the experiment can be found in Borg and Groenen (2005, p. 451) with the corresponding Table 21.1. containing distance estimates for color pairs. There were 14 subjects that rated the similarity of colors, 2 of whom replicated the experiment. 10 subjects have a normal color vision (labelled by N1 to N10 in our list object), 4 of them are red-green deficient in varying degrees. In this dataset we give the dissimilarity matrices for each of the subjects, including the replications. They are organized as a list of length 16 suited for smacofIndDiff computations.

The authors thank Michael Friendly and Phil Spector for data preparation.

References

Helm, C. E. (1959). A multidimensional ratio scaling analysis of color relations. Technical Report, Princeton University and Educational Testing Service. Princeton, NJ.

Borg, I., & Groenen, P. J. F. (2005). Modern Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications (2nd edition). New York: Springer.