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Shepard is an English surname, a variant of Shepherd, derived from the occupation of a person who herds sheep.^[1] The most notable person with this surname is Alan Shepard (1923–1998), an American astronaut who became the first U.S. citizen in space in 1961.^[2] For etymology, other notable people, places, fictional characters, and additional uses, see the relevant sections below.

Etymology and Usage

Origins as a Surname

The surname Shepard is primarily of English origin, deriving from an occupational name for a person who tended sheep. It traces its roots to the Old English compound word scēaphyrde, composed of scēap meaning "sheep" and hierde or weard signifying "herdsman" or "guardian," literally denoting a sheep herder.^[3]^[4] This term evolved through Middle English as schepherde or similar spellings, reflecting the phonetic and orthographic shifts common in medieval manuscripts.^[5] It can also be an Americanized form of French surnames such as Berger ("shepherd"), Chabot, or Chaput, or of some Jewish surnames sounding like or meaning "shepherd."^[6]^[7]^[8] The surname first emerged in written records during the late 13th century in England, amid the proliferation of hereditary family names following the Norman Conquest. One of the earliest documented instances is William Sepherd, recorded in the Hundred Rolls of Oxfordshire in 1279 during the reign of King Edward I.^[4] Other early variants appear in southern England around the same period, such as Walter le Schepherde, illustrating the surname's initial association with rural agrarian roles in regions like Oxfordshire and Dorset.^[9] By the 16th century, spellings had diversified, with examples like Jone Shepherd christened in London in 1585, showing stabilization as a fixed family identifier.^[4] The name spread to the American colonies primarily through English immigrants during the 17th century, including Puritan settlers fleeing religious persecution. Notable early bearers include Ralph Shepard, who arrived in Massachusetts around 1630 and settled in Dedham, establishing a prominent lineage in New England.^[10] Similarly, Thomas Shepard, a Puritan minister, emigrated in 1635 and contributed to early colonial communities in Cambridge.^[11] These migrations helped root the surname in New England, where families like the Shepards of Dedham and Cambridge became influential in local affairs.^[10] In modern usage, Shepard represents one of several variants of the root name, including Sheppard, Shephard, and Shepherd, with Shepard being a less common form often retained in specific American lineages due to phonetic simplification or clerical recording practices.^[4] This variant occasionally appears as a simplified or misspelled rendering of the occupational term "shepherd."^[4]

Relation to "Shepherd"

"Shepard" serves as a recognized variant spelling of the surname "Shepherd," sharing phonetic and orthographic similarities rooted in their common Old English origin from sceaphierde, meaning "sheep herder." This variation emerged prominently in American English during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in surnames and place names, where phonetic spelling influenced by regional dialects led to the omission of the second "h."^[8]^[6] Historical records show "Shepard" appearing frequently in U.S. census and immigration documents from the 1840s onward, often interchangeably with "Shepherd" due to inconsistent standardization in early American orthography.^[1] Culturally, "shepherd" carries significant biblical and literary weight, as seen in Psalm 23, which portrays the divine figure as a protective shepherd guiding the faithful: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." In modern contexts, "Shepard" occasionally surfaces as a misspelling or variant in brand names and errors within historical texts, such as misrenderings of occupational references in colonial American ledgers or the frequent misspelling of "German Shepherd" as "German Shepard" in popular media and advertising.^[12] These instances highlight how the variant perpetuates linguistic overlap, blending the surname's legitimacy with occasional confusion in non-proper noun uses. Usage frequency data from English-speaking countries underscores this relation. In the United States, the 2010 Census recorded 39,430 individuals with the surname Shepard and 60,479 with Shepherd, making Shepard approximately 40% of the combined occurrences and reflecting its established presence as an occupational surname variant.^[13]^[14] In the United Kingdom, Shepherd predominates with around 34,769 bearers, while Shepard is far less common, comprising under 5% of similar surnames based on distribution estimates.^[15] Canadian records from 1911 show similar patterns, with Shepherd families outnumbering Shepard variants by a ratio of about 3:1 in Ontario alone.^[16] Examples of confusion between the spellings appear in literature and media, where "Shepard" is sometimes substituted for "Shepherd" in folk tales or dramatic works, such as variant renderings of pastoral narratives in 19th-century American printings that interchange the forms without altering meaning.^[17] Genealogical texts also document cases in historical U.S. documents, like Civil War muster rolls, where recruits' names fluctuate between spellings due to clerical errors, illustrating the fluid boundary in pre-standardized English.^[18]

Notable People

In Exploration and Science

Alan Shepard (1923–1998) was a pioneering American astronaut and naval aviator whose career bridged military aviation and space exploration. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944 and completing naval flight training in 1947, Shepard served as a test pilot at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, logging over 8,000 hours in various aircraft, including more than 3,700 in jets.^[19] Selected as one of NASA's original seven Mercury astronauts in April 1959, he became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, aboard the Freedom 7 capsule during a suborbital flight that reached an altitude of 116 miles and covered 302 miles downrange in 15 minutes and 22 seconds.^[19] Grounded from 1963 to 1969 due to Ménière's disease, Shepard underwent surgery and returned to flight status, serving as chief of the Astronaut Office from 1963 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1974.^[19] Shepard commanded Apollo 14 from January 31 to February 9, 1971, the third lunar landing mission, alongside Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell. He piloted the lunar module Antares to the Fra Mauro highlands, spending 33 hours on the Moon and conducting two extravehicular activities totaling 9 hours and 17 minutes, during which he and Mitchell used the modularized equipment transporter (MET) for the first time and collected approximately 100 pounds of lunar samples.^[19] Notably, Shepard famously hit two golf shots on the lunar surface with a makeshift club, demonstrating the low gravity environment and adding a lighthearted moment to the mission's scientific objectives.^[19] Retiring from the Navy as a rear admiral in 1974, Shepard received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal twice and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for his contributions to human spaceflight.^[19] Roger Shepard (1929–2022) was a foundational figure in cognitive psychology, renowned for his experimental work on mental imagery, perception, and generalization. Working at Bell Laboratories and later Stanford University, Shepard developed nonmetric multidimensional scaling in the 1950s with Joseph Kruskal, a technique that maps subjective perceptual data into spatial representations with minimal distortion, influencing fields from psychophysics to data visualization.^[20] In 1968, collaborating with Jacqueline Metzler, he conducted seminal experiments on mental rotation, demonstrating that people mentally rotate 3D objects at speeds comparable to physical rotation—about 60 degrees per second—providing evidence that mental images obey physical laws and advancing understanding of spatial cognition.^[20]^[21] Shepard also created the Shepard tone, an auditory illusion producing the perception of a continuously rising or falling pitch through overlapping sine waves, which illustrates principles of perceptual organization and has applications in music and neuroscience.^[20] His 1987 "universal law of generalization," published in Science, posits that the probability of generalizing a response from a known stimulus to a novel one decreases exponentially with the psychological distance between them, derived from experiments on perceptual similarity in vision and audition; this law unifies concepts from animal conditioning to human categorization.^[20] Additionally, Shepard's Shepard tables optical illusion, where identical shapes appear distorted due to perspective cues, highlights errors in visual perception.^[20] Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1995 for his behavioral and social science contributions, Shepard's work, including books like Mental Images and Their Transformations (1982), established mental rotation as a key tool for studying cognition in diverse populations, from brain lesion patients to pilots.^[20]^[21] Other notable individuals named Shepard in exploration and science include William M. Shepherd (born 1949), a former Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut who commanded the first crewed mission to the International Space Station (Expedition 1, 2000–2001), logging 159 days in space across four shuttle flights and advancing long-duration human spaceflight operations. Oliver Shepard (active 1980s) participated in the Transglobe Expedition (1979–1982), a British polar circumnavigation led by Ranulph Fiennes, contributing to overland and ice travel across Antarctica before departing prior to the North Pole leg.^[22]

In Arts and Entertainment

Sam Shepard (1943–2017) was an acclaimed American playwright, actor, and director whose works often delved into the complexities of American family life and identity. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child, a three-act work exploring the dysfunction and buried secrets within a Midwestern farming family.^[23] Shepard's oeuvre includes over 55 plays, with True West (1980) exemplifying his interest in sibling rivalry and the myth of the American West through two brothers' explosive confrontation.^[24] As an actor, he appeared in notable films such as The Right Stuff (1983), portraying test pilot Chuck Yeager, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in August: Osage County (2013).^[25] Ernest Howard Shepard (1879–1976), commonly known as E. H. Shepard, was a British artist renowned for his illustrations in children's literature, particularly his whimsical line drawings that brought charm and expressiveness to animal characters. Beginning in 1926, he illustrated A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh series, capturing the Hundred Acre Wood's inhabitants like Pooh Bear and Piglet with soft, fluid sketches inspired by Shepard's own son's toys and countryside walks.^[26] His style, characterized by delicate ink lines and subtle humor, also graced Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1931 edition), where he depicted Mole, Rat, and Toad in lively, anthropomorphic scenes that emphasized friendship and adventure. Shepard's illustrations, produced over decades, have become iconic, influencing adaptations and enduring as staples of 20th-century children's book art.^[27] Dax Shepard (born 1975) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and podcaster known for his versatile roles in film and television, as well as his insightful interviews on personal development. He gained recognition for comedic performances in films like Idiocracy (2006), where he played the bumbling President Camacho, and the family drama series Parenthood (2010–2015), portraying Crosby Braverman.^[28] Since launching the podcast Armchair Expert on February 6, 2018, Shepard has hosted in-depth conversations with celebrities, experts, and friends, focusing on vulnerability, mental health, and life experiences to foster discussions on human growth.^[29] The show, produced by Wondery, has amassed millions of listeners through its empathetic and often humorous approach.^[28] Other notable figures include Vonda Shepard (born 1963), an American singer-songwriter whose soulful pop and jazz compositions served as the musical backbone for the television series Ally McBeal (1997–2002), with her soundtrack album Songs from Ally McBeal (1998) featuring hits like "Searchin' My Soul" and covers such as "You Belong to Me."^[30] Her performances, often integrated into the show's narrative, blended original songs with classics to underscore themes of romance and introspection.^[31] Sara Shepard (born 1978) is an American author best known for her young adult mystery series Pretty Little Liars (2006–2014), a 16-book saga centered on four teenage girls in Rosewood, Pennsylvania, unraveling secrets and anonymous threats after their friend's disappearance.^[32] The series, published by HarperTeen, explores themes of friendship, betrayal, and identity, inspiring a long-running TV adaptation.^[33]

Places

Settlements

Shepard is an unincorporated community located in Rocky View County, Alberta, Canada, situated approximately 24 kilometers east of downtown Calgary. Established in 1883 as a railway siding along the Canadian Pacific Railway's main line (now part of the Brooks Subdivision), it served as a key stop for transporting agricultural goods from surrounding farmlands. It was named after one of the partners in the railway contracting firm Shepard and Langdon. The community's development was tied to the expansion of rail infrastructure in the region, with the original Shepard Station built in 1910 as a replacement for an earlier flag stop, facilitating immigration and settlement between 1901 and 1911. As of 2023, Shepard was a small rural hamlet characterized by its agricultural heritage, including farming and ranching activities that support the local economy, but in July 2025, Rocky View County approved the Shepard Logistics Centre Conceptual Scheme, a major industrial development covering 521 hectares.^[34] The naming of Shepard reflects the influence of the common English surname, which was prevalent among early settlers in North American communities, often honoring local landowners or railway officials. In Texas, the Shepard Subdivision refers to a modern residential area, such as Old Shepard Place in Plano, featuring suburban homes built primarily in the late 20th century for urban commuters.

Natural Features

Shepard Glacier is a remnant ice feature, classified as a glacieret, situated in the southeastern portion of Glacier National Park, Montana, United States, immediately southeast of Cathedral Peak. Named for E. R. Shepard of Minneapolis, who explored the area in 1895 alongside Professor L. W. Chaney, the glacier was documented in early surveys of the park's glacial landscape.^[35] Due to rising temperatures and climate change, it has undergone significant retreat; historical aerial photography reveals that its area diminished below the 0.1 km² threshold by 1998, rendering it too small to qualify as an active glacier under standard definitions.^[36] Comparative analyses indicate a reduction exceeding 70% in surface area from mid-20th-century measurements to recent observations, exemplifying broader glacial loss in the Rocky Mountains.^[37] Shepard Guyot represents a prominent submarine volcanic feature in the Mid-Pacific Mountains, a chain of seamounts within the central Pacific Ocean basin. Located at approximately 19.24° N latitude and 179.75° W longitude, this flat-topped seamount rises from the abyssal plain and is named in honor of Francis P. Shepard, a foundational U.S. marine geologist associated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.^[38]^[39] As a guyot, it originated as an oceanic island volcano during the Cretaceous period, likely linked to hotspot activity, before subsiding below sea level and having its summit eroded flat by wave action. Geological sampling from similar Pacific guyots suggests compositions dominated by alkali basalts and limestones from coral atolls, highlighting Shepard Guyot's role in understanding ancient intraplate volcanism and ocean floor evolution.^[40]

Fictional Characters and Concepts

In Video Games

Commander Shepard serves as the central protagonist in BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy, released between 2007 and 2012, where players control a customizable human soldier leading a diverse crew against the ancient machine race known as the Reapers.^[41] Born on April 11, 2154, in the game's lore, Shepard is depicted as a graduate of the elite N7 program within the Systems Alliance military, rising to the rank of commander and becoming the first human Spectre—an elite operative for the galactic Citadel Council.^[42] The character's gender, appearance, and background can be tailored by players at the start of the first game, allowing for personalized experiences that influence dialogue, relationships, and moral alignment throughout the series.^[43] Developed by the BioWare team under project director Casey Hudson, Shepard was created to embody classic sci-fi tropes of a heroic space commander, drawing inspiration from sources like Star Trek's exploratory captains and the ensemble dynamics of Babylon 5, while integrating player-driven agency into a sprawling narrative.^[44] This design emphasized choice-based storytelling, where decisions in one game ripple into sequels, affecting alliances, character survival, and galactic events, thereby elevating the RPG genre's focus on persistent consequences and replayability.^[45] The character's name honors real-life astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, reflecting the trilogy's thematic ties to human exploration and resilience.^[46] Voiced by Mark Meer for the male version and Jennifer Hale for the female, Shepard's performances contributed to the trilogy's critical acclaim for immersive role-playing.^[47]

In Literature and Media

In the television adaptation of Sara Shepard's young adult mystery series Pretty Little Liars (2006–2014), which aired from 2010 to 2017, a minor character named Miss Shepard appears briefly in the episode "The Homecoming Hangover" as a teacher at Rosewood High School, portrayed by the author herself in a cameo role.^[48] This adaptation expands on the books' themes of secrecy and intrigue in the fictional town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where interpersonal mysteries drive the narrative. In science fiction television, the surname Shepard features prominently in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine through the character Riley Aldrin Shepard, a human Starfleet Academy cadet and member of the elite Red Squad, known for his tactical expertise and involvement in covert operations.^[49] Shepard appears in episodes such as "Paradise Lost" (1996), where he aids in a plot involving Earth's defense grid, and "Valiant" (1998), depicting a young crew's high-stakes mission aboard a Defiant-class starship during the Dominion War.^[50] His portrayal underscores themes of youthful ambition and moral ambiguity in military service.

Other Uses

In Acoustics and Music

The Shepard tone is an auditory illusion that creates the perception of a continuously ascending or descending pitch without an actual change in overall pitch height, achieved through the superposition of multiple sine waves separated by octaves. Developed by psychologist Roger N. Shepard, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, the illusion was introduced in his 1964 study on pitch perception circularity. Shepard, later a professor at Stanford University, drew on psychoacoustic principles to demonstrate how overlapping tones exploit the ear's logarithmic pitch sensitivity. Technically, a Shepard tone is constructed from 8 to 12 octave-spaced sine wave components, where lower-frequency tones gradually fade out as higher ones fade in, producing a seamless loop that mimics an infinite pitch continuum.^[51] For an ascending scale, the base frequency progresses in semitone steps according to the formula f(n) = f_0 \times 2^{n/12}, with each component's amplitude modulated by overlapping raised-cosine envelopes to ensure smooth transitions.^[52] This design leverages the auditory system's inability to resolve the highest and lowest frequencies distinctly, reinforcing the illusion of perpetual motion.^[52] Since its introduction, the Shepard tone has been applied in experimental music and psychoacoustics to explore pitch perception and auditory continuity, influencing research on musical scales and illusion-based sound design. In music, it appears in the descending finale of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" from the 1971 album Meddle, where layered guitar and synthesizer effects create an eerie, unresolved closure.^[53] Film composers have adopted it for building tension, as in Hans Zimmer's score for Dunkirk (2017), where ascending variants heighten suspense during action sequences.^[54]

In Mathematics and Technology

Shepard's method, introduced by Donald Shepard in 1968, is a multivariate interpolation technique designed for irregularly spaced data points, particularly useful in generating smooth surfaces in computer graphics.^[55] The approach estimates values at unsampled locations through a weighted average of nearby known values, emphasizing inverse distance weighting to ensure local influence dominates.^[55] The core formula for Shepard interpolation is given by

f(\mathbf{x}) = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^n w_i y_i}{\sum_{i=1}^n w_i},

where y_i are the known values at points \mathbf{x}_i, w_i = 1 / d_i^p with d_i = \| \mathbf{x} - \mathbf{x}_i \| as the Euclidean distance, and p (often 2) controls the weighting decay.^[55] This method produces continuous approximations without requiring a predefined grid, making it robust for scattered datasets.^[55] In practice, Shepard interpolation finds applications in geographic information systems (GIS) for spatial mapping, such as interpolating elevation or environmental variables across terrains, and in machine learning for predicting outcomes in spatial data scenarios like climate modeling.^[56]^[57] It is implemented in tools like MATLAB via specialized functions such as shepard_interp_2d, which facilitate efficient computation for two-dimensional data.^[58] Roger N. Shepard contributed to mathematics through non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS), a computational method developed in the early 1960s to embed proximity data into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces while preserving ordinal relationships.^[59] Originating in psychological studies of perception, Shepard's MDS algorithm iteratively minimizes stress functions to map dissimilarities, enabling visualization of complex structures.^[60] This technique has influenced cognitive technologies and artificial intelligence, particularly in pattern recognition tasks where it aids dimensionality reduction and clustering of high-dimensional data, such as in semantic analysis or recommender systems.^[20] Seminal implementations, like Shepard's 1962 analysis of proximities, laid groundwork for modern extensions in machine learning libraries.^[59]

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Jan 19, 2007 · You can create a female Commander Shepard, you can decide everything about the way you look, and you can even decide how you got to be that ...
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Mass Effect Trilogy Retrospective: How It Redefined Storytelling for ...
Jan 13, 2025 · A Mass Effect trilogy retrospective exploring how BioWare redefined storytelling in one of the most beloved RPG franchises in gaming.
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Mass Effect: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Shepard
Jun 8, 2020 · Bioware settled on the name Commander Shepard in honour of Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr, officially the first American astronaut to travel into space.
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Mass Effect (Video Game 2007) - IMDb
Rating 9.1/10 (21,146) Captain David Anderson; (voice). Seth Green · Flight Lieutenant Jeff 'Joker' Moreau; (voice). Jennifer Hale · Commander Shepard (Female); (voice) …Mark Meer · Full cast & crew · Mass Effect · Mass Effect 2
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General Shepherd (Glenn Morshower) Character Info - Game8
Oct 21, 2022 · Shepherd is still a General of the US Army and is the one seen giving out orders to capture or kill the terrorist leader, Hassan.
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Scott Shepherd - The Fallout Wiki
Aug 31, 2025 · Scott Shepherd was a nurse before the Great War who volunteered up with the Responders after the bombs fell, providing his services in exchange ...
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Miss Shepard | Pretty Little Liars Wiki - Fandom
She is portrayed by Sara Shepard, the author of the Pretty Little Liars book series. Series. The Homecoming Hangover.
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Riley Aldrin Shepard | Memory Alpha - Fandom
Riley Aldrin Shepard was a human in the 24th century. His Starfleet service number was C953O4699427 and he was a member of the elite Red Squad.
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America's Storyteller - The Character List, The Louis L'Amour ...
Here is a list of all recurring or continuing characters and the works in which they appeared. Follow your favorite Louis L'Amour character. Click on their ...
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Why are fictional military people often named Shepard?
Sep 10, 2017 · It is subliminally inferring that the military person involved is a metaphorical Shepard that is protecting people or population (IE - Sheep) from the Wolves ( ...<|separator|>
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Lucius Shepard obituary | Fiction | The Guardian
Mar 26, 2014 · Shepard, who has died aged 70 of complications from a stroke, came late to writing and was nearly 40 before his first work was published.
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The Power of Sound: Using the Shepard Tone In Filmmaking
Jul 27, 2017 · The Shepard Tone is an auditory illusion of a sound that continually ascends or descends in pitch, creating the illusion of swelling sound.
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Chroma and Shepard Tones
Shepard's helix of pitch can be sonified using Shepard tones, each being a weighted superposition of sine waves separated by octaves.
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The Story Behind The Song: How Pink Floyd created the epic 'Echoes'
Mar 27, 2021 · Pink Floyd in 1967. Pink Floyd were all about experimentation on 'Echoes'. ... For the scientists out there, this effect is called a Shepard tone.
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What is The Shepard Tone? The Audio Illusion Explained with ...
Aug 10, 2020 · The Shepard Tone is an audio illusion that creates the feeling of consistent, never-ending rising/falling. The illusion is achieved by playing ...
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A two-dimensional interpolation function for irregularly-spaced data
A two-dimensional interpolation function for irregularly-spaced data · D. Shepard · Published in ACM National Conference 1 January 1968 · Mathematics, Geography ...Missing: Roger | Show results with:Roger
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Evaluation of DEM interpolation techniques for characterizing terrain ...
This research presents a comparison of deterministic interpolation methods, inverse distance weighted (IDW) and a natural neighbor (NN), with geostatistical ...
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shepard_interp_2d
Mar 25, 2019 · shepard_interp_nd, a MATLAB code which defines and evaluates Shepard interpolants to multidimensional data, based on inverse distance weighting.
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Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. II
The first in the present series of two papers described a computer program for multidimensional scaling on the basis of essentially nonmetric data.
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Multidimensional Scaling, Tree-Fitting, and Clustering - Science
American mathematical psychologists have developed computer-based methods for constructing representations of the psychological structure of a set of stimuli.