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DISTATIS: The Analysis of Multiple Distance Matrices

Hervé AbdiDominique ValentinBetty EdelmanAlice J. O'toole

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RV coefficientSet (abstract data type)Matrix (mathematics)Similarity (network science)Computer scienceGeneralizationbusiness.industryMultidimensional scalingArtificial intelligenceMultidimensional systemsbusinessDistance matrices in phylogeny

description

In this paper we present a generalization of classical multidimensional scaling called DISTATIS which is a new method that can be used to compare algorithms when their outputs consist of distance matrices computed on the same set of objects. The method first evaluates the similarity between algorithms using a coefficient called the RV coefficient. From this analysis, a compromise matrix is computed which represents the best aggregate of the original matrices. In order to evaluate the differences between algorithms, the original distance matrices are then projected onto the compromise. We illustrate this method with a "toy example" in which four different "algorithms" (two computer programs and two sets of human observers) evaluate the similarity among faces.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-01-052005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Workshops
https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2005.445