statistics

non-metric multidimensional scaling

also: NMDS

Ordination preserving only the rank order of distances between objects.

positionnement multidimensionnel non métrique

aussi : NMDS

Ordination qui ne conserve que l'ordre des distances entre objets.

Ses axes n'ont pas de sens propre : ni pourcentage de variance ni orientation interprétable.

Classification

statistics

Attestation

French term: QCBS R Workshop Series, French version (Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science)

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248 occurrences in the corpus

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/non-metric-multidimensional-scaling.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. non-metric multidimensional scaling. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/non-metric-multidimensional-scaling.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-non-metric-multidimensional-scaling,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {non-metric multidimensional scaling},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/non-metric-multidimensional-scaling.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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