A General Formulation for Unidimensional Unfolding and Pairwise Preference Models: Making Explicit the Latitude of Acceptance

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 400-417

  Luo, Guanzhong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Measurement of attitude; probabilistic unfolding; Rasch model; single peaked function; latitude of acceptance; hyperbolic cosine model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002342858     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmps.1998.1206     Document Type: Article

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