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RECORD NUMBER: 219 OF 239| Main Title | Theory and methods of scaling / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Torgerson, Warren S., | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Wiley, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1958 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 00190692 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0471879452; 9780471879459 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Psychometrics ; Schaalmethoden ; Psychology--Methodology ; Scaling (Social sciences) | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Scaling (Social sciences) | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Contents Notes | The importance of measurement in science -- The nature of measurement -- Classification of scaling methods -- The subjective estimate methods -- The fractionation methods -- Equisection methods -- The differential sensitivity methods -- Thurstone's judgment scaling model -- The law of comparative judgment -- The law of categorical judgment -- Multidimensional scaling -- Dereministic models for categorical data -- Probability models for categorical data -- Models for comparative response data -- Summary -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index. Psychological scaling methods up to 1958. |