MDS Results - Quick Tab

Select the Quick tab of the Results dialog box to access the options described here.

Option Description
Summary: Final configuration Creates a spreadsheet with the coordinates of the final configuration.
Graph final configuration, 2D Plots the final configuration of variables (objects) in two-dimensional format. If you have more than 2 dimensions in your analysis, the Select Two Dimensions for Scatterplot dialog box is displayed, in which you select the dimensions for the 2D scatterplot.
Graph final configuration, 3D Plots the final configuration of variables (objects) in three-dimensional format. If you have more than 3 dimensions in your analysis, the Select Three Dimensions for Scatterplot dialog box is displayed, in which you select the dimensions for the 3D scatterplot.
Shepard diagram Produces a scatterplot where each point represents a distance - data point pair (note that the original data are plotted against the horizontal x-axis in the plot). In addition, the D-hat values are indicated in the graph by a step function. Statistica performs nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and the D-hat values are computed by a monotone (non-linear) transformation of the original data (dissimilarities).  Thus, the step function monotonically increases or decreases. The closer the fit of the step function to the data points plotted in the graph, the better the fit of the respective model, that is, the better is the reproduction of the distances (or, specifically, the rank order of distances) in the input data, given the respective number of dimensions.