An Empirical Comparison of Metric and Nonmetric Analyses of Correlation Coefficients.

Carroll, Robert M.

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Publication Date: 1976

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An Empirical Comparison of Metric and Nonmetric Analyses of Correlation Coefficients

Carroll, Robert M.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, 36, 2, 283-96, Sum 76

Examines the similarity between the coordinates which resulted when correlations were used as similarity measures and the factor loadings obtained by factor analyzing the same correlation matrix. Real data, a set of error free data, and some computer generated data containing deliberately introduced sampling error are analyzed. (RC)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Data Analysis, Factor Analysis, Matrices, Monte Carlo Methods, Multidimensional Scaling, Nonparametric Statistics, Sampling

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