Computer assisted text analysis in the social sciences

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-128

  Brier, Alan ^a   Hopp, Bruno ^b  

^a University of Southampton   (United Kingdom)

^b GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; INDSCAL; Multidimensional scaling; PINDIS; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650213881     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-010-9350-8     Document Type: Article

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