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Early Roots of Psychometrics Before Francis Galton

Although one of the flagships of psychometrics, factor analysis, could not have been invented without Francis Galton’s (1822–1911) groundbreaking concept of correlation, some other psychometric concepts had be...

Willem J. Heiser in Essays on Contemporary Psychometrics (2023)

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The Emergence of Joint Scales in the Social and Behavioural Sciences: Cumulative Guttman Scaling and Single-Peaked Coombs Scaling

Two approaches to psychological scaling evolved in the nineteenth century. The subject-centred approach quantifies individual differences in ability by standardised person scores. It started with Francis Galto...

Willem J. Heiser, Jacqueline J. Meulman in Analysis of Categorical Data from Historic… (2023)

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Map** Networks and Trees with Multidimensional Scaling of Proximities

Network methodology typically has two separate stages: (1) constructing a graph from relational data, and (2) drawing the graph on a map to comprehend its structure. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is discussed...

Willem J. Heiser, Frank M. T. A. Busing… in Advanced Studies in Behaviormetrics and Da… (2020)

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A distribution-free soft-clustering method for preference rankings

Typically, ranking data consist of a set of individuals, or judges, who have ordered a set of items—or objects—according to their overall preference or some pre-specified criterion. When each judge has express...

Antonio D’Ambrosio, Willem J. Heiser in Behaviormetrika (2019)

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A Recursive Partitioning Method for the Prediction of Preference Rankings Based Upon Kemeny Distances

Preference rankings usually depend on the characteristics of both the individuals judging a set of objects and the objects being judged. This topic has been handled in the literature with log-linear representa...

Antonio D’Ambrosio, Willem J. Heiser in Psychometrika (2016)

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Editorial

Willem J. Heiser in Journal of Classification (2015)

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Cluster Differences Unfolding for Two-Way Two-Mode Preference Rating Data

Classification and spatial methods can be used in conjunction to represent the individual information of similar preferences by means of groups. In the context of latent class models and using Simulated Anneal...

J. Fernando Vera, Rodrigo Macías, Willem J. Heiser in Journal of Classification (2013)

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Editorial

Journal of Classification (2013)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Clustering and Prediction of Rankings Within a Kemeny Distance Framework

Rankings and partial rankings are ubiquitous in data analysis, yet there is relatively little work in the classification community that uses the typical properties of rankings. We review the broader literature...

Willem J. Heiser, Antonio D’Ambrosio in Algorithms from and for Nature and Life (2013)

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Editorial

Willem J. Heiser in Journal of Classification (2011)

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Editorial

Journal of Classification (2010)