Upper bounds for Kruskal's stress (Q1058253)

In this paper the relationships between the two formulas for stress proposed by \textit{J. B. Kruskal}, ibid. 29, 1-29 and 115-129 (1964; Zbl 0123.368), are studied. It is shown that stress formula one has a system of nontrivial upper bounds. It seems likely that minimization of this loss function will be liable to produce solutions for which this upper bound is small. These are regularly shaped configurations. Even though stress formula two yields less equivocal results, it seems to be expected that minimization of this loss function will tend to produce configurations in which the points are clumped. These results give no clue as to which of the two loss functions is to be preferred.