Some Results on Proper Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors with Applications to Scaling
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 44 (2) , 211-227
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02293972
Abstract
Conditions are given under which the stationary points and values of a ratio of quadratic forms in two singular matrices can be obtained by a series of simple matrix operations. It is shown that two classes of optimal weighting problems, based respectively on the grouping of variables and on the grouping of observations, satisfy these conditions. The classical treatment of optimal scaling of forced-choice multicategory data is extended for these cases. It is shown that previously suggested methods based on reparameterization will work only under very special conditions.Keywords
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