LAMSAS in the Netherlands

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Dialectometrics
Cartography
 Clustering
 MDS
 Clustering with noise
 Clustering with noise and MDS

Cartography

Clustering with noise and MDS

Clustering with noise uses a set of differences as input (the original dialect differences) and produces a new set of differences (the cophenetic differences). We can apply MDS on these new differences, just like we did in normal MDS.

Limitations

This procedure results in maps with only four major distinctive colours, and only small variations within each colour. To see more detail, you have to zoom in on an area, and repeat the procedure.

Limitations of normal MDS apply.