How One Normally Constructs Good Measures

1 August 1972

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research

Vol. 1 (1) , 3-12
https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417200100101

Abstract

This article describes how following good measurement construction procedures result in normal variables, for which the use of nonparametric statistics would simply be inappropriate.

Keywords

CONSTRUCTS GOOD MEASURES
NONPARAMETRIC
CONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES
SIMPLY
INAPPROPRIATE
MEASUREMENT CONSTRUCTION
GOOD MEASUREMENT

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Robustness in Regression Analysis
Sociological Methodology, 1971
My Student, the Purist: A Lament
The Sociological Quarterly, 1968