- Clyde Coombs' Theory of Data: Similarities and Preferential Choice
Assignment: - Coombs, Chapter 1
- Gill, Chapter 1
- Borg and Groenen, Preface and Chapter 1
- Carroll, J. Douglas and Phipps Arabie. 1980. "Multidimensional Scaling."
Annual Review of Psychology. M. R. Rosenzweig and L. W. Porter, eds.,
vol. 31, 1980.
- A Review of Linear Algebra
First Homework Assignment- What Latent Dimensions are and Why they are Important
Assignment: - Borg and Groenen, Chapters 2, 3, and 4
- Poole, Chapter 1
- Gill, Chapter 2
- Weisberg, Herbert F. 1984. "Scaling Objectives and Procedures." In Theory
Building and Data Analysis in the Social Sciences. Edited by Herbert Asher,
Herbert F. Weisberg, John Kessel, and W. Phillips Shively.
- Weisberg, Herbert F. 1974. "Dimensionland: An Excursion into Spaces." American
Journal of Political Science, 18:743-776.
- Rabinowitz, George. 1975. "An Introduction to Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling."
American Journal of Political Science, 19:343-390.
- Poole, Chapter 2
- Borg and Groenen, Chapters 4, 6 - 8
- Poole, Keith T. 1984. "Least Squares Metric, Unidimensional
Unfolding." Psychometrika, 49:311-323.
- Issue Scales and Perceptual Data
Assignment: - Aldrich, John H. and Richard D. McKelvey. 1977.
"A Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections."
American Political Science Review, 71:111-130.
- Poole, Keith T. 2001. "The Relationship Between the Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling Solution
and the Individual Differences Problem." Manuscript, University of Houston.
Second Homework Assignment
Third Homework Assignment
R Program To Plot Eigenvalues
(Illustrates Customized Axes For Plot)
Data That R Program
To Plot Eigenvalues Reads (Data From OC)
Fourth Homework Assignment
R Program To Plot 107thSenate
Data That R Program To Plot 107th Senate Reads
Fifth Homework Assignment
R Program To Double Center Squared Distance Matrix -- Homework 4 Example
Squared Distance Matrix From Homework 4
R Program To Illustrate Eigenvector Extraction
R Program To Illustrate Two-Line Plot and Two-Line Title
R Program To Plot Shepard
Gradient of Generalization from KYST Output
R Program To Plot Shepard
Diagram -- D-Hats and Distances vs. Observed Data
Color Distances, D-HATS, and DATA from KYST Output
Sixth Homework AssignmentAssignment:
- Borg and Groenen, Chapters 9 - 18
- Poole, Keith T. 1997. "Non-Parametric Analysis of Binary Choice Data."
Manuscript, University of Houston.
- How The Optimal Classification (OC) Program Works.
- Poole, Chapters 3, 4, and 5
Seventh Homework Assignment
R Program To Illustrate Effect
of Correlated Dimensions on the Corresponding Singular Values
R Program To Plot
Humphrey, Nixon, and Wallace Voters from 1968 Feeling Thermometer Scaling
Coordinate File For 1968 Thermometer
Scaling
R Program To Produce Density
Plots of Yea and Nay Voters on Ending Estrada Filibuster
Agreement Scores for 107th
Senate
Estrada Roll Call
Epsilon Macro To Insert Party ID
From ELEC2000.DAT into Aldrich-McKelvey Coordinate Output File
KEITH.DAT -- Coordinate Output File
From Aldrich McKelvey Scaling Program
ELEC2000.DAT -- 2000 Election Data
See this Page for Specific Instructions on How to Run the Macro
Eighth Homework Assignment
Ninth Homework AssignmentAssignment:
- Poole, "Changing Minds? Not in Congress!"
- Ekman, Gosta. 1954. "Dimensions of Color Vision." Journal of Psychology,
38:467-474.
- Converse, Philip E. 1964. "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics."
In David E.Apter, ed., Ideology and Discontent. New York: Free Press.
- Miller, George A. 1956. "The Magical Number Seven, Plus Minus One: Some Limits on
our Capacity for Processing Information." Psychological Review, 63:81-97.
Tenth Homework Assignment
Eleventh Homework Assignment
Twelveth Homework Assignment