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- Title
Determining the significance of scale values from multidimensional scaling profile analysis using a resampling method.
- Authors
Ding, Cody S.
- Abstract
Although multidimensional scaling (MDS) profile analysis is widely used to study individual differences, there is no objective way to evaluate the statistical significance of the estimated scale values. In the present study, a resampling technique (bootstrapping) was used to construct confidence limits for scale values estimated from MDS profile analysis. These bootstrap confidence limits were used, in turn, to evaluate the significance of marker variables of the profiles. The results from analyses of both simulation data and real data suggest that the bootstrap method may be valid and may be used to evaluate hypotheses about the statistical significance of marker variables of MDS profiles.
- Subjects
MULTIDIMENSIONAL scaling; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICAL bootstrapping; HYPOTHESIS; FACTOR analysis
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2005, Vol 37, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03206396