Attitudes, order and quantity: Deterministic and direct probabilistic tests of unidimensional unfolding

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-34

  Kyngdon, Andrew ^a,c   Richards, Ben ^b  

^a Meta Metrics Inc

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MetaMetrics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247224873     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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