Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is a form of non-linear dimensionality reduction refers to a set of related ordination techniques used to visualize information contained in a distance matrix Subpages Classical Multidimensional Scaling (cMDS) Generalized Multidimensional Scaling (GMD) Metric Multidimensional Scaling (mMDS) Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS)