Factor analysis versus multi-dimensional scaling: Binary choice roll-call voting and the US Supreme Court

Social Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-229

  Brazill, Timothy J ^a   Grofman, Bernard ^b  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Ideology; Multi dimensional scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036279661     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8733(02)00004-7     Document Type: Article

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