Maximum Resolution Topology for Multi-Attribute Dichotomies
Volume 16, Issue 4 (2005), pp. 557–570
Pub. online: 1 January 2005
Type: Research Article
Received
1 February 2005
1 February 2005
Published
1 January 2005
1 January 2005
Abstract
The Star Plot approach to high-dimensional data visualization is applied to multi-attribute dichotomies. It is observed that the areas of the plot for the two parts of a dichotomy may be used as an aggregate measure of their relative dominance. An optimization model is developed to determine a topology (or weighted configuration of the attributes) that maximizes the resolution of this measure with respect to a given set of reference dichotomies.