ERIC EJ1066259: Inferences of Coordinates in Multidimensional Scaling by a Bootstrapping Procedure in R

by: ERIC

Publication date: 2015

Topics: ERIC Archive, Multidimensional Scaling, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Computation, Statistical Analysis, Kim, Donghoh|Kim, Se-Kang|Park, Soyeon

Collection: ericarchive; additional_collections

Language: English

Recently, MDS has been utilized to identify and evaluate cognitive ability latent profiles in a population. However, dimension coordinates do not carry any statistical properties. To cope with statistical incompetence of MDS, we investigated the common aspects of various studies utilizing bootstrapping, and provided an R function for its implementation.