metaMDS(cm, distance = "euclidean", k = 2, trymax = 50, autotransform =TRUE, trace = 1, plot = T) (cm is a similarity matrix, in which values are positive integers or 0) I use this command to run NMDS on my matrix "cm". But the stress is very high after analysis. About 14. Actually, there is no improvment comparing with using isoMDS. cd<-dist(cm,method="euclidean") loc<-isoMDS(cd,tol = 1e-10,trace=T) Is there parameters that I can change to improve performance? Or is there any other better methods to do MDS? -- Wu Chen Information Management School, WHU [[alternative HTML version deleted]]