Standardization and Component Analysis

1 August 1972

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research

Vol. 1 (1) , 97-135
https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417200100105

Abstract

This paper reviews various procedures of standardization and component analysis which utilize vector or matrix multiplication or are based on regression analysis. Substantive examples using these techniques are drawn from demography and from previous studies of the occupational mobility and income difference of blacks and whites. Modifications of decomposition equations found in the latter studies are developed which take statistical interaction into account. Finally, Michelson's relatively unknown approach to multiple component analysis is presented, together with our own explorations of the properties of this type of analysis.

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Patterns of occupational mobility among Negro men
Demography, 1968
On the Cost of Being a Negro*
Sociological Inquiry, 1965
Test Factor Standardization as a Method of Interpretation
Social Forces, 1962