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Kim, Donghoh; Kim, Se-Kang; Park, Soyeon – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Recently, MDS has been utilized to identify and evaluate cognitive ability latent profiles in a population. However, dimension coordinates do not carry any statistical properties. To cope with statistical incompetence of MDS, we investigated the common aspects of various studies utilizing bootstrapping, and provided an R function for its…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Cognitive Ability
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Kim, Se-Kang – International Journal of Testing, 2010
The aim of the current study is to validate the invariance of major profile patterns derived from multidimensional scaling (MDS) by bootstrapping. Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) was employed to obtain profiles and bootstrapping was used to construct the sampling distributions of the profile coordinates and the empirical…
Descriptors: Intervals, Multidimensional Scaling, Profiles, Evaluation