Nada Mohammed Hafez Ibrahim <br/><br/>
A mathematical programming approach for nonmetric multidimensional scaling /  
 اسلوب البرمجة الرياضية للقياسات غير المترية المتعددة الابعاد 
Nada Mohammed Hafez Ibrahim ; Supervised Afaf Ali Hassan Eldash , Ali Elhefnawy 
 - Cairo :   Nada Mohammed Hafez Ibrahim ,   2011 
 - 101 P. :   charts ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Statistics 
<br/><br/> Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a data visualization method for identifying structure or clusters of objects depending on proximity measures between pairs of objects . In this thesis nonmetric multidimensional scaling is considered which prone to local minimum solution when minimizing the stress function and we do not guarantee obtaining the global optimum  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Mixed integer programming Nonlinear programming Nonmetric multidimensional scaling