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A Note on the Nonmetric Analysis of Psychological Intervals for an unknown Ordering of Stimuli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Randall Bissett  and
Bruce Schneider
Randall Bissett
Affiliation:
Erindale College University of Toronto
Bruce Schneider*
Affiliation:
Erindale College University of Toronto
*
Reprint requests should be addressed to Bruce Schneider, Department of Psychology, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, L5L 1C6.
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Abstract

A modified version of a coordinate adjustment technique which permits the analysis of comparisons of psychological intervals for an unknown ordering of stimuli is described and compared to the original version and to TORSCA. For configurations with a large number of points, knowledge of the rank order of the stimuli does not improve the solution. For configurations with a small number of points, the performance of the new algorithm with an unknown ordering is equivalent to TORSCA.

Keywords

scalingpsychophysics

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Notes And Comments
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Psychometrika , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 627 - 629
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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