- unidimensional scaling
Dictionary of sociology. 2013.
unidimensional scaling
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measurement — raises four main issues for the sociologist: representation (how many properties of the empirical world can best be modelled?); uniqueness (how unique are the resulting measurement numbers?); appropriate statistics (what indices may legitimately… … Dictionary of sociology
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Guttmann-Skala — Die Guttman Skala (nach dem deutschstämmigen englischen Neurologen Ludwig Guttman bzw. Louis Guttman (1899 1980)) ist ein Skalierungsverfahren in der empirischen Sozialforschung, mit dem Einstellungen zu einer Sache (z. B. Personen,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
occupational mobility — Often wrongly called social mobility . It refers to the movement of an occupational group itself, or of an individual member of an occupation, or of an occupational vacancy, through the stratification system of social space. Studies of the Hindu… … Dictionary of sociology
successive categories or intervals — A method of data collection and (unidimensional) scaling , where attitudinal or questionnaire items have been judged by the respondent in terms of an ordinal scale of categories, such as the five category bipolar scale ‘wholly agree, somewhat… … Dictionary of sociology
Theory of conjoint measurement — The theory of conjoint measurement (also known as conjoint measurement or additive conjoint measurement) is a general, formal theory of continuous quantity. It was independently discovered by the French economist Gerard Debreu (1960) and by the… … Wikipedia
