F Tests for the Absolute Invariance of Dominance and Composition Scales

1 June 1967

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika

Vol. 32 (2) , 157-182
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289424

Abstract

Significance tests are developed for evaluating the absolute invariance of the dominance and composition scales presented in a previous paper [Bechtel, 1967]. These tests derive from the multivariate normality of the estimated scale values—this multinormality stemming from that of the observations upon which these estimated scale parameters are based. The scales compared by means of the present techniques will typically be constructed under distinct experimental conditions, which may take the concrete form of treatments, occasions, individuals, or groups. Thus the present tests possess a wide range of applicability including various experimental designs in which scale configuration is the dependent variable. Illustrative data are used in statistically comparing the scale structures of two different individuals.

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