Applications of multidimensional scaling: Comment on “a method for studying intercorrelated circulation patterns in library systems”
William E. McGrath · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1984
Abstract Applications of multidimensional scaling to library circulation, with implications formanagement decisions in the areas of collection building, housing of collections, allocation of funds, and on‐line retrieval are discussed. As a data‐descriptive, hypothesis‐generating technique, implications for theory building, hypothesis testing, prediction, and explanation are also discussed. Cautions concerning the interpretation of clusters, dimensions, the form of input matrices, and care in the definition of objects submitted to scaling are mentioned.