112. The stress revealed by 2D representation (Figure 3.9) is given as 0.19 (top right corner of the MDS plot). Although still potentially providing a useful representation of the multi‐dimensional space, it indicates that the picture is a stretched and could be misinterpreted. For this reason, Figure 3.10 presents two orientations (a and b) of the 3D MDS plot, which shows that the choice of 21% similarity slice, represents the grouping separation quite reasonably with a much lower stress level (0.14).
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East Anglia THREE and FOUR Offshore Cable Corridor
