Results of scaling by MINISSA are displayed
as follows:
Click on to change file
displayed; to see
the MINISSA output file. For matrices of between 10 and 60
words, this reports Spence’s approximation for Kruskal’s Stress based on random rankings (Spence,
1979). The standard deviation associated with the values produced by this
approximation can be
taken as 0.01. Select analyse clusters from the same menu to assign items displayed to clusters and to plot their means in the current display.
Click on points in the display to
highlight their
labels; click on Refresh
to cancel the highlights.
With the right mouse button depressed, drag the pointer to a new location and release the
mouse button again to move the display around inside the window, to be able to
concentrate on particular parts of it.
Some basic drawing functions are toggled on and off by clicking on their respective
buttons on the toolbar. When they are operative, a hand pointer cursor appears,
which is changed back to the default arrow cursor when the facility is toggled
off again. Toggling the Line
buttondraws straight lines from
a point where a mouse button is depressed to
a point where it is lifted.Toggling the
Ellipse button draws an ellipse
within a notional rectangle outlined by using the mouse in a
similar manner. The Line | Colour and
Line | Thickness menu items allow you to set the colour
and thickness in pixels of the lines drawn. Clicking on the
Text button causes a box to appear to enter text. On
closing this box, move the mouse to the position required and
press a mouse button to add the text to the
image displayed. Finally, toggling
Erase allows you to erase the
display as required. Clicking on Undo (Ctrl+Z) will
undo the last changes
made. Clicking on Refresh will clear all lines and
annotations added and return the image to its original form when first
displayed. The image as amended must be saved immediately
on completion of drawing and erasing, as any
additions will be lost when the display is
reoriented.
Click on Save Display to save the current display in a file. Alternatively, you may use
Alt+PrtScr to save the current display to the clipboard
for inclusion in other files.
Click on the menu item
Toggle display to select the
equivalent network-style output display of the data configuration.
