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We describe the numerical methods required in our approach to multi-dimensional scaling. The rationale of this approach has appeared previously.
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Kruskal, J.B. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling: A numerical method. Psychometrika 29, 115–129 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289694
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