07 Scale Construction
Topics
Topics
Thurstone or Equal-Appearing Interval Scaling
Paired comparisons
Likert or "Summative" Scaling
Guttman or "Cumulative" Scaling
Torgerson scaling
Readings
Readings
Alan Booth, David Johnson, John N. Edwards. 1983.Measuring Marital Instability Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 387-394 [^pdf]
Data
Data
Saso SM [spss]
Handouts
Handouts
Swenson. Building an additive scale [html]
Borgatti
Cronbach's alpha
Trochim. On Scaling
Related Modules
Related Modules
factor analysis
optimal scaling
mds
Goodman RC models
Conjoint scaling