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Peer reviewedBrady, Henry E. – Psychometrika, 1989
Satisfactory results for interpersonally incomparable ordinal survey responses can be obtained by assuming that rankings are based upon a set of multivariate normal latent variables that satisfy factor or ideal point models of choice. Two statistical methods based upon those assumptions are described and illustrated via simulations. (TJH)
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Data Analysis, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics)
