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Stress
The following notation is used to define Stress:
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I - The number of dimensions specified for the fit
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i, j - indexes for the number of objects
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dij - the distance between objects i and j
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δij - the derived distance between objects i and j
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- transformation function for the distance
The Stress function is given by
This measure of stress is also known as Kruskal’s Stress, Type I, or simply Stress1.

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