Peter H. Schönemann
Professor Emeritus • Department of Psychological Sciences • Purdue University

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Peter H. Schonemann and Robert M. Carroll

Fitting one matrix to another under choice of a central dilation and a rigid motion

Psychometrika, 1970, 35, 245-255

Abstract

A least squares method is presented for fitting a given matrix A to another given matrix B under choice of an unknown rotation, an unknown translation and an unknown central dilation.

The procedure may be useful to investigators who wish to compare results obtained with non-metric scaling techniquesn across samples, or who wish to compare such results with those obtained by conventional factor analytic techniques on the same sample.

Notes

Technically a straightforward  generalization of the orthogonal Procrustes problem,  the utility of this particular least squares method extended beyond the narrow confines of  psychometrics into several other fields including medicine and engineering.