2011 ICPSR SUMMER PROGRAM

SCALING AND DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS

"Minimizing stress and rotating in n-space since 1984!"

Daily Readings

The entries listed below refer to section headings on the 2011 syllabus for the Measurement, Scaling, and Dimensional Analysis workshop.

• First Week
• Tuesday, June 21: Introduction and a brief tour of course topics. No specific readings.
• Wednesday, June 22: Measurement theory. Section I.A.
• Thursday, June 23: Data theory and dimensionality. Sections I.B, I.C.
• Friday, June 24: Unidimensional unfolding. Section II.A.

• Second Week
• Monday, June 27: Summated rating scales. Section II.B.
• Tuesday, June 28: Summated rating scales (Continued). Section II.B.
• Wednesday, June 29: Vector geometry. Section III.A.
• Thursday, June 30: Singular value decomposition and biplots. Sections III.B and IV.A.

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