ENGLISH

Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences

By Norman Cliff , John A. Keats

Book information

Publisher
Psychology Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0805820930, 9780805820935, 9781410606808
LCC
BF39 .C525 2003
Open Library ID
OL3670628M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2607573 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
236\236
Topic
Biology
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Scanned
yes
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This book provides alternatives to current methods - alternatives that stay much closer to the original data. Thus, the book's approach can be looked on as a turn to simple empiricism in psychological measurement. Since the empiricism is based on ordinal rather than interval scale concepts, so it is more realistic than current approaches or older ones, such as classical test theory. Behavioral data is inherently noisy, so the authors emphasize providing summary scores and information on the relative amount of noise there is in the data, rather than imposing a parametric model on it.

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