food {fmds}R Documentation

Food data

Description

38 subjects places 45 food items in categories based on similarity. The dissimilarities are the proportions of combinations NOT placed in the same category.

Usage

food

Format

45 x 45 dissimilarity matrix

References

Ross and Murphy (1999). Food for thought: Cross-classification and category organization in a complex real-world domain. Cognitive psychology, 38(4), 495-553. Brusco and Stahl (2000). Using Quadratic Assignment Methods to Generate Initial Permutations for Least-Squares Unidimensional Scaling of Symmetric Proximity Matrices. Journal of Classification, 17(2).


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