Profile Analysis via Multidimenional Scale

        Part I:  Estimate Scale Values of the Profiles

   This Page contains a dataset and a set of SAS program codes that uses the dataset to perform MDS analysis. As explained in Ding, Cody S. (2001). Profile analysis: multidimensional scaling approach. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 7(16). Available online: http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=16, the scale values of the dimensions can be plotted as profiles to category people into different types. These types are called "latent profiles".

       DATA

       SAS Program Codes to Perform MDS analysis