Chapter 17
Language and space
Dialects, maps and Multidimensional Scaling
Article outline
- 17.1Making maps with R
- 17.2What is Multidimensional Scaling?
- 17.3Computation and representation of geographical distances
- 17.4Computation and representation of linguistic distances: The Kruskal non-metric MDS
- 17.4.1Recoding the dataset
- 17.4.2Computation of Gower distances
- 17.5The Mantel test for distance matrices
- 17.6Summary
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Notes