Overview





Psychometrics: Mental Tests
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   Sir Francis Galton
      Karl Pearson
    Charles Spearman
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       Correlation
  Single Factor Analysis
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    L. L. Thurstone
Multiple Factor Analysis\-----------------------------|
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  Warren Torgerson         \Clyde Coombs         Louis Guttman               Philosophy and
Classical Metric Scaling   Unfolding Analysis   Guttman Scaling                 Economics-----------------|
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           |                      |                   |                   Hotelling, Black, Downs,    McFadden         Mathematics
           |                      |------------- Georg Rasch              Davis, Hinich, Ordeshook        |                 |
           -----Roger Shepard     |           Item Response Model                   |                     |           Metroplis et al.
               Joseph Kruskal-----|                   |                     Spatial (Geometric)     Random Utility          |
                     |            |--------|          |                      Theory of Choice           Model               |
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    Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling    |          |                             |-------------------- |                 |
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                                                   Quadratic-Normal Scaling-------------------------------------------------|