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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 1156-1167Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2020.1869027
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Clusteredness; Data visualization; Exploratory data analysis; Multidimensional scaling; Nonlinear dimension reduction; Social cognition
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This paper introduces the Cluster Optimized Proximity Scaling (COPS) method, aiming to find a low-dimensional configuration with clusteredness to improve the clustering of objects, enabling visual identification of clusters of mental states.
Proximity scaling methods such as multidimensional scaling represent objects in a low-dimensional configuration so that fitted object distances optimally approximate object proximities. Besides finding the optimal configuration, an additional goal may be to make statements about the cluster arrangement of objects. This fails if the configuration lacks appreciable clusteredness. We present cluster optimized proximity scaling (COPS), which attempts to find a configuration that exhibits clusteredness. In COPS, a flexible parameterized scaling loss function that may emphasize differentiation information in the proximities is augmented with an index (OPTICS Cordillera) that penalizes lack of clusteredness of the configuration. We present two variants of this, one for finding a configuration directly and one for hyperparameter selection for parametric stresses. We apply both to a functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset on neural representations of mental states in a social cognition task and show that COPS improves clusteredness of the configuration, enabling visual identification of clusters of mental states. Online are available including an R package and a document with additional details.
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