New Interactive Visual Tools and Statistical Methodology for Selecting and Evaluating Nonlinear Dimension Reduction Layouts of High-Dimensional Data

A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Monash University, Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics.

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