Fitting a simplex symmetrically
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 35 (1) , 1-21
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02290590
Abstract
A method for fitting a perfect simplex [Guttman, 1954] is suggested which, in contrast to Kaiser's [1962], is independent of the order of the manifest variables. It is based on a procedure for scaling a set of points from their pairwise distances [Torgerson, 1958; Young & Householder, 1938] which is reviewed in compact notation in the Appendix. The method is extended to an iterative algorithm for fitting a quasi-simplex. Some empirical results are included.Keywords
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