Interpreting degenerate solutions in unfolding by use of the vector model and the compensatory distance model

Psychometrika

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-69

  Van Deun, K ^a   Groenen, P J F ^b   Heiser, W J ^c   Busing, F M T A ^c   Delbeke, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Degeneracy; Iterative majorization; Mixed plots; Squared correlation; Unfolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944355082     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-002-1046-0     Document Type: Article

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