Avoiding the dangers of averaging across subjects when using multidimensional scaling

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-46

  Lee, Michael D ^a   Pope, Kenneth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0038172404     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2496(02)00019-6     Document Type: Article

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