Multidimensional Successive Categories Scaling: A Maximum Likelihood Method
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 46 (1) , 9-28
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02293914
Abstract
A single-step maximum likelihood estimation procedure is developed for multidimensional scaling of dissimilarity data measured on rating scales. The procedure can fit the euclidian distance model to the data under various assumptions about category widths and under two distributional assumptions. The scoring algorithm for parameter estimation has been developed and implemented in the form of a computer program. Practical uses of the method are demonstrated with an emphasis on various advantages of the method as a statistical procedure.Keywords
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