THE NewMDSX SERIES OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING PROGRAMS

Background The original MDS(X) Project was funded (1974-1982) by the U.K. Social g m Library Unit of the University of Edinburgh. It grew out of the frustration of a research ma was produce a utility for producing measures from raw data for input into (any) multidimensional form ion d As tp://www.mimas.ac.uk/]. Until recently its main use has been on PCs erating under MD-DOS. This manual describes a new version for use with , 2000, and XP. e Windows version now includes programs for Correspondence Analysis ting data (MDSORT), and principal components ition to the routines originally available in about MDS(X) on MAC machines contact Wolfgang Otto: l enquiries about NewMDSX should be directed to [email protected] Science Research Council in conjunction with the Pro ra group at Edinburgh University trying to work out the similarities and s differences in programs coming from different ources – particularly Bell Laboratories and University of Michigan (Gutt n-Lingoes). The project designed to: • Collect MDS and related programs in common use or of particular interest • rewrite the source-code up to Fortran77 specifications • replace the common subroutines by numerically efficient versions provide a common instruction set for running programs • • scaling programs. ve sion as wi ely a For many years, a mainframe r w d vailable, and maintained til recently by Manchester In at an sociated Services un ht [ p o Windows 9x, NT Th (CORRESP) , analysis of sor nalysis (PRINCOMP), in add a MDS(X). or information F [[email protected]]. He has also operated NewMDSX for Windows successfully using the MAC PC emulator.