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Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)

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The work was supported by Grants 2014/14/M/HS6/00919 from the National Science Centre, Poland.

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Cieciuch, J. (2017). Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1329-1

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