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Pruzansky, Sandra; And Others – Psychometrika, 1982
Two-dimensional euclidean planes and additive trees are two of the most common representations of proximity data for multidimensional scaling. Guidelines for comparing these representations and discovering properties that could help identify which representation is more appropriate for a given data set are presented. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Data Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Statistical Data

Vijn, Peter – Psychometrika, 1983
The use of Bayesian theory to connect ordinal data and ordered scale points with the theory of order statistics is presented. Exact and approximate multivariate and marginal densities for the scale points are derived. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Data Analysis, Latent Trait Theory, Measurement
Yuan, Ke-Hai; Bentler, Peter M.; Chan, Wai – Psychometrika, 2004
Data in social and behavioral sciences typically possess heavy tails. Structural equation modeling is commonly used in analyzing interrelations among variables of such data. Classical methods for structural equation modeling fit a proposed model to the sample covariance matrix, which can lead to very inefficient parameter estimates. By fitting a…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Statistical Distributions, Evaluation Methods, Data Analysis