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Welcome to STOPS project!

Methods that fit nonlinear distance transformations in multidimensional scaling and trade-off the fit with structure considerations to find optimal parameters.

This is the homepage of the Structure Optimized Proximity Scaling (STOPS) project. On this page you can find links to papers, talks, data and software related to STOPS.

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Papers:

Peer-reviewed Articles:

(all open access)

  • Rusch, T., Mair, P., & Hornik, K. (2023). Structure-based hyperparameter selection with Bayesian optimization in multidimensional scaling, Statistics and Computing, 33:28.
  • Rusch, T., Mair, P., & Hornik, K. (2021) Cluster Optimized Proximity Scaling, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 30:4, 1156-1167.
  • Rusch, T., Hornik, K. & Mair, P. (2018) Assessing and Quantifying Clusteredness: The OPTICS Cordillera, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 27:1, 220-233.
  • Technical Reports:

    STOPS: Structure Optimized Proximity Scaling
    COPS: Cluster Optimized Proximity Scaling
    Assessing and Quantifying Clusteredness: The OPTICS Cordillera

    Talks:

    (title links lead to slides)
    Title Event Date Place
    Structure Optimized Proximity Scaling (STOPS): A Framework for Hyperparameter Selection in Multidimensional Scaling Psychoco 2017 09.02.2017-10.02.2017 WU Vienna, Austria
    COPS and STOPS: Cluster and/or Structure Optimized Proximity Scaling Brown Bag Seminar, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics 07.12.2016 WU Vienna, Austria
    The OPTICS Cordillera: Nonparametric Assessment of Clusteredness Brown Bag Seminar, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics 23.10.2016 WU Vienna, Austria
    COPS: Cluster Optimized Proximity Scaling Psychoco 2015 12.02.2015-13.02.2015 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Scaling for Clusters with COPS: Cluster Optimized Proximity Scaling CFE-ERCIM 2014 06.12.2014-08.12.2014 Pisa, Italy

    Software:

    The project summary page you can find here.

    The most recent build is available for Windows and Linux here: STOPS Package

    People:

  • Thomas Rusch
  • Patrick Mair
  • Kurt Hornik
  • Jan de Leeuw