On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Karen Kotschy wrote: > Hi again > > Sorry, in looking again at sammon and isoMDS I see that they seem to do > exactly what I want, except that they are non-metric, which means, as I > understand it, that they relate the rank orders of the variables rather than > the actual distances. > > Could I use these non-metric MDS packages even if my distances are metric?
Yes. BTW, Sammon is not ordinal. What `non-metric' means depends on who is using the term. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
