Nonlinear Programming Approach to Optimal Scaling of Partially Ordered Categories
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 40 (4) , 525-548
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02291554
Abstract
A modified technique of separable programming was used to maximize the squared correlation ratio of weighted responses to partially ordered categories. The technique employs a polygonal approximation to each single-variable function by choosing mesh points around the initial approximation supplied by Nishisato's method. The major characteristics of this approach are: (i) it does not require any grid refinement; (ii) the entire process of computation quickly converges to the acceptable level of accuracy, and (iii) the method employs specific sets of mesh points for specific variables, whereby it reduces the number of variables for the separable programming technique. Numerical examples were provided to illustrate the procedure.Keywords
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