Forrest Wesley Young (April 10, 1940 – 2006) was a professor emeritus of

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at the

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and former President of the

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. He is the developer of

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a software for data visualization.

Books

*Schiffman, S.S., Reynolds, M.L. & Young, F.W. (1981). ''Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling''. New York: Academic Press. *Young, F.W. & Sarle, W.S. (1982). ''Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis''. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, Inc. *Young, F.W. & Hamer, R.M. (1987). ''Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory and Applications''. New York: Erlbaum Associates. (reprinted, 1994)

References

1940 births Psychometricians University of North Carolina faculty American writers 2006 deaths University of Southern California alumni {{US-psychologist-stub