mds
Classical multidimensional scaling, also known as principal coordinates analysis. Given a matrix of dissimilarities (e.g. pairwise distances), MDS finds a set of points in low dimensional space that well-approximates the dissimilarities in A. We are not restricted to using a Euclidean distance metric. However, when Euclidean distances are used MDS is equivalent to PCA.
Parameters
the non-negative proximity matrix of dissimilarities. The diagonal should be zero and all other elements should be positive and symmetric. For pairwise distances matrix, it should be just the plain distance, not squared.
the dimension of the projection.
if true, estimate an appropriate constant to be added to all the dissimilarities, apart from the self-dissimilarities, that makes the learning matrix positive semi-definite. The other formulation of the additive constant problem is as follows. If the proximity is measured in an interval scale, where there is no natural origin, then there is not a sympathy of the dissimilarities to the distances in the Euclidean space used to represent the objects. In this case, we can estimate a constant c such that proximity + c may be taken as ratio data, and also possibly to minimize the dimensionality of the Euclidean space required for representing the objects.