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The Complete Analysis of a Data Matrix: Application and Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. Hope
K. Hope*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10. Now Lecturer in Methods of Social Research in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Nuffield College
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In a recent article (Hope, 1969a) the author has demonstrated the theoretical relations between what psychologists call the analysis of persons and the analysis of tests. The demonstration was illustrated by an analysis of a hypothetical matrix M whose rows were called entities and whose columns were called variables. It was shown that, by combining Slater's (1964) method of spherical co-ordinate mapping with a method of numerical taxonomy suggested by the author, it is possible to perform a comprehensive and self-consistent pair of analyses whose conclusions can be read off three diagrams: a map of variables, a dendrogram of entities, and a profile diagram of the multivariate means of groups of entities.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 535 , June 1970 , pp. 657 - 666
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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