##  [Multidimensional Scaling](/index.php/multidimensional-scaling) 

  ##  [Multidimensional Scaling](https://social.quantumdictionary.io/multidimensional-scaling-0) 

  

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Definition

A family of ordination methods that constructs a configuration of points in a geometric (usually Euclidean) space whose pairwise distances reproduce, as closely as possible, an observed matrix of similarities or dissimilarities among items; variants include classical (metric) MDS—based on eigen decomposition of a double‑centered distance matrix—and nonmetric MDS, which seeks a monotonic transforma