A Computer Program for Deterministic and Probabilistic Models of Order Analysis

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The technique of order analysis was proposed as an inferential alternative to factor analysis. The method reconceptualizes the problem of analysis of data matrices from the perspective of formal logic. Dominance matrices preserving the direction of variance were used in lieu of the correlation matrix of factor analysis. The roots of linear equations, as dimensionality indicators, were supplanted by branching routines developed within the context of graph theory. The program provides for graphic construction of the manifest and latent structures of the data matrix and does not analyze patterns of random variation.

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