Erasmus School of Economics

Modern Multidimensional Scaling

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Data sets for Chapter 6

  1. Clothes
  2. Offenses
  3. Words

1. Clothes

Description file, Raw data, Excel file, SPSS data file.

Title: Clothes

Source: Merkle (1981)

Description: Frequencies with which product x
is bought together with product y, as measured by the sales registry in a
set of German clothing stores.

The products are:

1 Expensive suit
2 Expensive trad. shirt
3 Expensive tie
4 Cheap tie
5 Imported shirt
6 Medium-priced shirt
7 Cheap suit
8 Cheap shirt
9 Cheap knitwear
10 Stylish shirt
11 Colored socks
12 Jeans
13 Modern jacket
14 Modern pants

2. Offenses

Description file, Raw data, Excel file, SPSS data file.

Title: Offenses

Source: Borg (1988)

Description: Relative frequencies with which a group of male
students judged that the crime/offense in row i is more serious than the
crime/offense in column j.

The crimes/offenses are:

1 Abortion
2 Adultery
3 Arson
4 Assault/battery
5 Burglary
6 Homicide
7 Rape
8 Seduction
9 Theft
10 Receiving stolen goods

3. Words

Description file, Raw data, Excel file, SPSS data file.

Title: Words

Source: Dunn-Rankin (1983, p.47)

Description: Results of a free sorting experiment. Fifteen persons
clustered eleven words that all begin with the letter a. The entries in the
data matrix are cluster numbers.