[R] Ordination of feature film data question

[Jari Oksanen]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 07:50 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> `Ordination' is ecologists' terminology for multidimensional scaling.
> You will find worked examples in MASS (the book, see the R FAQ), and the 
> two most commonly used functions, isoMDS and sammon, in MASS the package.
> 
'Ordination' in ecologists' terminology also covers principal components
analysis and variants of correspondence analysis. Actually, when an
ecologist speaks about 'ordination', she most often means correspondence
analysis, which also sounds like a natural (though perhaps not the best)
choice for co-occurrence data in movies.

cheers, jari oksanen 
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Jari Oksanen <jarioksa at sun3.oulu.fi>