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2007 Jun 14
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Difference between prcomp and cmdscale
I'm looking for someone to explain the difference between these
procedures. The function prcomp() does principal components anaylsis,
and the function cmdscale() does classical multi-dimensional scaling
(also called principal coordinates analysis).
My confusion stems from the fact that they give very similar results:
my.d <- matrix(rnorm(50), ncol=5)
rownames(my.d) <-