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A Simple Procedure for Rearranging Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

W. A. Gibson
W. A. Gibson*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina
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Abstract

Guttman's scalogram board technique for reordering the columns and rows of a matrix is described and its disadvantages are pointed out. A simple and inexpensive procedure for doing the same job without these disadvantages is outlined.

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Psychometrika , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1953 , pp. 111 - 113
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Copyright © 1953 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

I am grateful to Professor Jozef Cohen of the University of Illinois for a five-minute conversation which greatly simplified the procedure described here.

†

Suchman, Edward A. The scalogram board technique for scale analysis. In Samuel A. Stouffer, et al., Measurement and prediction. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1950. Ch. 4.