2009 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 2009 syllabus for the Measurement, Scaling, and Dimensional Analysis workshop.

• First Week
• Tuesday, June 23: Introduction and a brief tour of course topics. No specific readings, but Jacoby (1991) follows roughly the same topics.
• Wednesday, June 24: Thinking creatively about data, and dimensionality. Sections I.B and I.C.
• Thursday, June 25: Measurement theory. Section I.A.
• Friday, June 26: Unidimensional Unfolding. Section II.A.

• Second Week
• Monday, June 29: Unidimensional unfolding (continued), Section II.A., and summated rating scales, Section II.B.
• Tuesday, June 30: Summated rating scales (continued) and reliability, Section II.B.
• Wednesday, July 1: Vector geometry, Section III.A.
• Thursday, July 2: Singular value decomposition, Section III.B.
• Friday, July 3: The biplot, Section IV.A, and principal components components analysis, Section III.B.

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