Outlines a set of techniques that enable a researcher to discuss the 'hidden structure' of large data bases. These techniques use proximities, measures which indicate how similar or different objects are, to find a configuration of points which reflects the structure in the data.

Interests, Activities, Kudos
    multidimensional scaling
    minimum spanning trees
    clustering
    statistical linguistics
    Past President of the Psychometric Society
    Past President of the Classification Society of North America
    Fellow of ASA
    Fellow of AAAS