An Empirical Comparison of Restricted and General Latent Distance Analysis

1 December 1954

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

Vol. 19 (4) , 271-279
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289227

Abstract

Latent distance analysis provides a probability model for the non-perfect Guttman scale; the restricted latent distance structure is simpler to compute than the general structure. Since no sampling theory for latent structure analysis is available, the advantages of the general structure cannot be expressed formally. The two structures are compared in terms of their fit to fifteen sets of empirical data. The computation schemes used are summarized.

Keywords

STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
PUBLIC POLICY
GENERAL STRUCTURE
EMPIRICAL DATA
PROBABILITY MODEL

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Some Limitations on the Arbitrary Classification of Non-Scale Response Patterns in a Guttman Scale
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1952