Bayesian Metric Multidimensional Scaling
Ryan BakkerKeith T. Poole
Algorithm1. Double-Center the Squared Distances to get starts for
the Respondents and Political Figures.2. Run Nelder-Mead in a Zig-Zag fashion to sharpen the
starts.3. Run L-BFGS Optimization on all the parameters
simultaneously using the results of Theorem II.4. Check the Hessian with numerical and analytical 2nd
Derivatives.5. Use the Configuration from the L-BFGS Optimization as
the target Configuration for each element (Configuration in the Slice Sampler) using the results of Theorem II.
6. Run the Slice Sampler 110,000 times with 10,000 Burn-in (random or non-random starts).