AMA Assignment

Multidimensional Scaling
Avijit Banerjee
Sec B, 170103048

Dataset – HBAT_MDS

Case Processing Summary

Cases 180

Sources 18

Objects 10

Proximities Total Proximities 810a

Missing Proximities 0

Active Proximitiesb 810

a. Sum over sources of all strictly lower-triangular

proximities.

b. Active proximities include all non-missing

proximities.

Interpretation:

a) The no. of objects to be considered are 10

b) With respect to the 10 objects, data is read from 18 sources
c) The total no. of cases considered for the scaling is 180
Goodness of Fit

Stress and Fit Measures

Normalized Raw Stress .08328

Stress-I .28858a

Stress-II .81673a

S-Stress .21181b

Dispersion Accounted For

.91672
(D.A.F.)

Tucker's Coefficient of
.95746
Congruence

PROXSCAL minimizes Normalized Raw

Stress.

a. Optimal scaling factor = 1.091.

b. Optimal scaling factor = .956.

Interpretation -

a) The value of stress is 0.083 and is acceptable

b) Stress is minimized when the objects are placed in a configuration such that the
distances between the objects best match the original distances
c) A trade-off must be made between fit of the solution and the number of dimensions
d) The stress value varies for different dimensions; hence we have taken the number of
dimensions to be 2 for an acceptable stress value
Common Space

Final Coordinates

Dimension

1 2

var1 -.488 -.246

var2 -.467 -.435

var3 -.009 -.504

var4 .739 .120

var5 .650 -.285

var6 .222 .405

var7 -.534 .456

var8 .173 .818

var9 .325 -.449

var10 -.611 .121

Interpretation:

a) The above table represents the coordinates for the various objects taken in the two-
dimensional space
b) Here the two dimensions form the axes of the plot
c) The measures above have been calculated on the basis of Identity scaling model
Interpretation:

a) All the objects are plotted and represented graphically here

b) The objects closer to each other have the minimum dissimilarity, whereas the ones far
apart have maximum dissimilarity