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Bockenholt, Ulf; Bockenholt, Ingo – Psychometrika, 1991
A reparameterization of a latent class model is presented to classify and scale nomial and ordered categorical choice data simultaneously. The model extension represents a nonhomogeneous population as a mixture of homogeneous subpopulations. Simulated data and data from a magazine preference survey of 347 college students illustrate the model.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Classification, College Students, Computer Simulation
McGaghie, William C. – 1996
The cognitive structure of 13 concepts in pulmonary physiology was explored among 112 first-year medical students and among 32 faculty members in three different expertise groups in a knowledge representation study. Purposes were to assess the degree of agreement among faculty members, map students' concept structures, and compare the similarity…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Structures, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Golledge, R. G.; Rushton, Gerard – 1972
The purpose of this monograph is to show that sufficient achievements in scaling applications have been made to justify serious study of scaling methodologies, particularly multidimensional scaling (MDS) as a tool for geographers. To be useful research, it was felt that the common methodological and technical problems that specialized researchers…
Descriptors: Algorithms, College Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Geographic Distribution