are you talking about Q SORT techniques???
scroll down here a bit ... http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/5501.htm
http://facstaff.uww.edu/cottlec/QArchive/Bps.htm ... some history
At 01:53 PM 1/24/01 +0000, Paolo Covelli wrote:
>I know that the techniques as principal component analysis, factor analysis
>or canonical correlation analysis are called R-techniques, because the
>correlation matrix R plays an important role in this approach.
>Instead techniques such as discriminant analysis, cluster analysis or
>multidimensional scaling are known as Q-techniques.
>Why this name?
>Thanks
>Paolo
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