MDS, NMDS

多维尺度分析(MDS)是一种将距离矩阵转换为二维散点图的技术,用于可视化对象之间的距离。输入是距离矩阵,输出是散点图,其中每个点代表一个对象。MDS不考虑地图上的方向,只关注距离。在实际应用中,如早餐烘焙商品的相似度分析,由于数据可能存在矛盾,不同MDS算法如度量MDS和非度量MDS会处理这些矛盾,力求保持距离关系或相对顺序的准确性。
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 MDS是什么(Multidimensional Scaling)

重点:只考虑距离,不必考虑相对位置(例如地图中上下左右这样的相对位置,不需要考虑)

来源What is Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)? - Displayr

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a technique for visualizing distances between objects, where the distance is known between pairs of the objects.

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The input to multidimensional scaling is a distance matrix. The output is typically a two-dimensional scatterplot, where each of the objects is represented as a point.

Worked example 1

To illustrate the basic mechanics of MDS it is useful to start with a very simple example. The distance matrix below shows the distance, in kilometers, between four Australian cities. From these distances alone, we can reconstruct the map (shown below) which shows the distance between the cities.

 

Worked example 2

The distance matrix below shows the perceived dissimilarities between 15 breakfast baked goods, where a high number means that the subject rated them as being very dissimilar, and a lower number indicates the pair of baked breakfast goods are highly similar.

The resulting “map” is show below.

 How to read an MDS “map”

When reading an MDS map, we can consider only distances. Unlike a geographic map, there is no concept of up or down, or north and south. The actual orientation that appears on a map (i.e., the up and down) is entirely arbitrary, and there are many other identical possible positions, as shown below.

MDS algorithms

In the simple example at the beginning of this article, the map reproduces the data exactly. In more realistic applications, such as the one involving baked goods, there tend to be contradictions in the data and it is impossible to show all the distances on the map accurately. Looking at the example above, jdonut and toast have a dissimilarity of only 3 in the distance matrix, but this is inconsistent with a lot of the other distances, so on the map these two baked goods are further apart.

Researchers have developed different MDS algorithms which make different decisions about how to reconcile these contradictions. The two most well-known are metrics MDS, which seeks to show the distances so that they are, on average, correct, and non-metric MDS, which focuses only on preserving the relative ordering of the distances in the distance matrix.




 

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