Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-mzp66 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-08T12:18:54.080Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A Simple Procedure for Rearranging Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

W. A. Gibson*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina

Abstract

Guttman's scalogram board technique for reordering the columns and rows of a matrix is described and its disadvantages are pointed out. A simple and inexpensive procedure for doing the same job without these disadvantages is outlined.

Type
Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 The Psychometric Society

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

I am grateful to Professor Jozef Cohen of the University of Illinois for a five-minute conversation which greatly simplified the procedure described here.

Suchman, Edward A. The scalogram board technique for scale analysis. In Samuel A. Stouffer, et al., Measurement and prediction. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1950. Ch. 4.