Re: [R] MDS with missing data?

2006-06-15 Thread Jari Oksanen
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:13 +0300, Jari Oksanen wrote: 1) use nonmetric/gradient descent MDS which seems to allow missing data, or Not the isoMDS function in MASS. if N(N-1) is a problem, then nonmetric MDS may not be the solution. Sorry for the wrong information: isoMDS does handle

Re: [R] MDS with missing data? (change topic - isomap)

2006-06-15 Thread context grey
Thanks for the isoMDS pointer. I found one implementation of isomap at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~astro/kmethods though the web page suggests the code may be immature. --- Jari Oksanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:13 +0300, Jari Oksanen wrote: 1) use

[R] MDS with missing data?

2006-06-14 Thread context grey
Hello I will be applying MDS (actually Isomap) to make a psychological concept map of the similarities between N concepts. I would like to scale to a large number of concepts, however, the resulting N*(N-1) pairwise similarities is prohibitive for a user survey. I'm thinking of giving people

Re: [R] MDS with missing data?

2006-06-14 Thread Jari Oksanen
Dear Context Grey, On 15 Jun 2006, at 6:42, context grey wrote: I will be applying MDS (actually Isomap) to make a psychological concept map of the similarities between N concepts. So actually, how do you do isomap? RSiteSearch gave me one hit of isomap. I only ask, because I've