Unfolding a symmetric matrix |
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Authors: | John C Gower Michael J Greenacre |
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Institution: | (1) University of South Africa, South Africa;(2) Present address: Department of Statistics, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;(3) Present address: Department of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, Balmes 132, 08008 Barcelona, Spain |
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Abstract: | Graphical displays which show inter-sample distances are important for the interpretation and presentation of multivariate data. Except when the displays are two-dimensional, however, they are often difficult to visualize as a whole. A device, based on multidimensional unfolding, is described for presenting some intrinsically high-dimensional displays in fewer, usually two, dimensions. This goal is achieved by representing each sample by a pair of points, sayR
i andr
i, so that a theoretical distance between thei-th andj-th samples is represented twice, once by the distance betweenR
i andr
j and once by the distance betweenR
j andr
i. Selfdistances betweenR
i andr
i need not be zero. The mathematical conditions for unfolding to exhibit symmetry are established. Algorithms for finding approximate fits, not constrained to be symmetric, are discussed and some examples are given. |
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Keywords: | Dimensionality reduction Distances Graphics Multidimensional scaling Symmetric matrices Unfolding |
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