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>From: Rainer Scheuchenpflug x3820
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Examples of Interval Scale - Measurement theory
>Date: Thu, Jan 28, 1999, 4:46 AM
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> Sarle, W. (1995). Measurement theory: Frequently asked questions.
> (I got this article from the Internet and lost the URL, but kept the file.
> Sorry, this was during my first steps into the Web. I'd be happy to provide
> the file (LaTeX or postscript) for anyone interested. Warren Sarle gives
permission
> to reproduce his article for educational purposes.)
For anyone interested in this article that Rainer mentioned, it can be found
on the internet at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/measurement.faq
A brief excerpt on the issue of scale of measurement & choice of statistical
test:
"The connection between measurement level and statistical analysis has
been hotly disputed in the psychometric and statistical literature by
people who fail to distinguish between inferences regarding the
attribute and inferences regarding the measurements. If one is
interested only in making inferences about the measurements without
regard to their meaning, then measurement level is, of course,
irrelevant to choice of statistical method."
John
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John Serafin
Professor of Psychology
Saint Vincent College
300 Fraser Purchase Rd.
Latrobe, PA 15650
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[He] isn't a genius, he is a professor--a being whose duty is to know
everything, and have his own opinion about everything.
-William James, speaking about Wilhelm Wundt
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