The following information was distributed in 3-1997.

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   *   Netlib/MDS is a collection of FREE programs for multidimensional  *
   |   scaling and related methods.                                      |
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   |   -- NEW: The GTREE program and manual by Jim Corter.               |
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   |   -- NEW: The manual for KYST-2 in plain text (ascii) form          |
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   |   -- RECENT: Four entries covering PREFMAP3, SINDSCAL, and KYST2    |
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   |   -- RECENT: Several DOS executable files                           |
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   |   -- Programs may be obtained by email, ftp, and web browser.       |
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GTREE is a Pascal program for fitting additive trees to proximity data using
the "generalized triples" combinatorial algorithm; for larger data sets, it
is  much faster than previous programs that obtain similar results.

Netlib/MDS is a collection of programs having to do with multidimensional
scaling and related methods, including PREFMAP, SINDSCAL (INDSDCAL), ADDTREE,
EXTREE, KYST, MDSCAL, HICLUST, and MDPREF (some in multiple versions).

Netlib/MDS is one of many libraries (currently about 140) which are
maintained at and distributed by Netlib at several sites around the world.

For further information, send email containing only this line

     send readme from mds

to

     netlib@netlib.bell-labs.com

Our thanks to

	Jim Corter (Columbia University, USA)

for providing GTREE, to

	Patrick Groenen (Leiden University, The Netherlands), 
	Phipps Arabie (Rutgers University, USA),
	Jacqueline Meulman (Leiden University, The Netherlands), 

for providing the recent programs, and to Joaquin Sanchez (Complutense
University, Spain) for other help.

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             Joseph B Kruskal, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
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                   EMAIL kruskal@research.bell-labs.com
 PHONE 908-582-3853                                       FAX 908-582-2379
 HOMEPAGE http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/kruskal/index.html
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