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Multidimensional scaling for symbolic interval data - SymScal algorithm

Description

Multidimensional scaling for symbolic interval data - symScal algorithm

Usage

symscal.SDA(x,d=2,calculateDist=FALSE)

Arguments

x	symbolic interval data: a 3-dimensional table, first dimension represents object number, second dimension - variable number, and third dimension contains lower- and upper-bounds of intervals (Simple form of symbolic data table)
d	Dimensionality of reduced space
calculateDist	if TRUE x are treated as raw data and min-max dist matrix is calulated. See details

Details

SymScal, which was proposed by Groenen et. al. (2005), is an adaptation of well-known nonmetric multidimensional scaling for symbolic data. It is an iterative algorithm that uses STRESS objective function. This function is unnormalized. IScal, like Interscal and SymScal, requires interval-valued dissimilarity matrix. Such dissmilarity matrix can be obtained from symbolic data matrix (that contains only interval-valued variables), judgements obtained from experts, respondents. See Lechevallier Y. (2001) for details on calculating interval-valued distance. See file ../doc/Symbolic_MDS.pdf for further details

Value

xprim	coordinates of rectangles
STRESSSym	final STRESSSym value

Author(s)

Andrzej Dudek [e-mail]

Department of Econometrics and Computer Science, University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland http://keii.ue.wroc.pl/symbolicDA/

References

Billard L., Diday E. (eds.) (2006), Symbolic Data Analysis, Conceptual Statistics and Data Mining, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Bock H.H., Diday E. (eds.) (2000), Analysis of symbolic data. Explanatory methods for extracting statistical information from complex data, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Diday E., Noirhomme-Fraiture M. (eds.) (2008), Symbolic Data Analysis with SODAS Software, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Groenen P.J.F, Winsberg S., Rodriguez O., Diday E. (2006), I-Scal: multidimensional scaling of interval dissimilarities, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, pp. 360-378. Available at: doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.04.003.

See Also

iscal.SDA,interscal.SDA

Examples

# Example will be available in next version of package, thank You for your patience :-)

symbolicDA documentation built on Feb. 16, 2023, 6 p.m.