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- Title
ABSTRACTS: MEASUREMENT SCALES AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS.
- Abstract
The article presents abstract of an article by G.J. Boris Allan, published in the August 1979 issue of the journal Quality and Quantity. The article states that nearly all social science variables are measured on ordinal scales and are characterized by distributions. If one postulate the form of the underlying distributions between variables one may be in a position to relate measures of rank correlation to the correlation of the underlying values. One result of this form of analysis is the realization that there is no unambiguous measure of ordinal partial correlation. Therefore if one must perform an ordinary multivariate: one needs to postulate the forms of the underlying distributions; to take into account any grouping of datum-values.
- Subjects
PERIODICALS; SOCIAL science methodology; MULTIVARIATE analysis; MATHEMATICAL variables; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); STATISTICAL correlation
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1979, Vol 13, Issue 4, p361
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Abstract