ALSCAL Command Additional Features

The command syntax language also allows you to:

• Use three additional model types, known as ASCAL, AINDS, and GEMSCAL in the literature about multidimensional scaling.
• Carry out polynomial transformations on interval and ratio data.
• Analyze similarities (rather than distances) with ordinal data.
• Analyze nominal data.
• Save various coordinate and weight matrices into files and read them back in for analysis.
• Constrain multidimensional unfolding.