A reanalysis of Lord's statistical treatment of football numbers

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 69-75

  Zand Scholten, Annemarie ^a   Borsboom, Denny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Admissible statistics; Bisymmetry; Measurement level; Measurement statistics debate

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949213141     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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