google on "perceptual mapping with R"
Here is one of the hits:
http://marketing-yogi.blogspot.com/2012/12/session-4-rcode-perceptual-maps.html
It does not look like mds. It appears to be (closely related to?) PCA.
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Noah Silverman <noahsilverman at
ucla.edu> wrote:> Hi,
>
> Someone just asked me to analyze a fairly large data set using something
> they called "perceptual mapping". I'm not familiar with the
term, but a
> quick check in Google seems to indicate that it is just another term for
> Multidimensional Scaling. However, they insist that it is something
> different.
>
> Is anybody here familiar with "perceptual mapping" with
multidimensional
> data? If so, can you point to me to any examples using R?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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