Mathar, R.; Meyer, R. - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 51 (1994) 1, pp. 102-120
We consider the MDS problem of fitting an lp-distance matrix to a given dissimilarity matrix with respect to the weighted least squares loss function (STRESS). The problem is reduced to the maximization of a ratio of two norms on a finite dimensional Hilbert space. A necessary condition for a...