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Big Problem

I ran into this page trying to understand what (in mathematical language) is MDS, and how to perform it. What do I discover? "Running the MDS statistical program" is how you do it! amazing. It's like asking "What's ANOVA?" and having the article say "oh, it's that package you use on SPSS". no words. 23:56, 5 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.139.226.37 (talk)

I agree with this, can somebody please write a proper mathematical description of this method. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.125.252 (talk) 02:51, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree with this. It's not that such a description doesn't belong _anywhere_ but it certainly feels out of place here. The natural expectation is that if you have a Wikipedia article on MDS and there is a section in it titled "Procedure", that it will give you a (perhaps simplified) overview of what calculations are involved, not state "Run an MDS statistical program". How bizarre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.190.102 (talk) 08:45, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Edit: furthermore a lot of the text appears to be identical to other online sources, presumably there has been some cut-and-pasting. I have no idea whether this is ok? For example http://www.cu.edu.ge/data/file_db/Presentations/_Kqe8HBiWqa.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.190.102 (talk) 08:50, 13 May 2012 (UTC)