1. What is the full form of SEM?

Answer: SEM stands for Structural Equation Modeling.

2. Which function performs classical multidimensional scaling?

Answer: classical multidimensional scaling function is used to perform cmdscale()

3. Define isoMDS().

Answer: This function is defined under the MASS package which performs nonmetric multidimensional scaling.

4. Which function perform individual difference scaling?

Answer: It is done by indscal() function to perform individual difference scaling.

5. What is pvclust() function ?

Answer: It comes under the pvclust package which provides p-values for hierarchical clustering.

6. Define cluster.stats() ?

Answer: It is define in fpc package which provide a method for comparing the similarity of two clusters solution using different validation criteria.

7. What we use party package?

Answer: It is used to provide a non-parametric regression for ordinal, nominal, censored and multivariate responses.

8. Which package provide the bootstrapping?

Answer: Boot package is used which provide bootstrapping.

9. Define MATLAB package.

Answer: Matlab package includes those wrapper functions and variable which are used to replicate matlab function calls.

10. What is the use of Matrix package?

Answer: Matrix package includes those function which support sparse and dense matrices like Lapack, BLAS etc.