Measurement in the Social Sciences: Theories and Strategies

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
A Fully Nonmetric Unfolding Technique: Interval Values from Ordinal Data....Pages 11-60
Social Attitudes: Magnitude Measurement and Theory....Pages 61-120
Relations Between Scales....Pages 121-158
Memory and the Assessment of Behavior....Pages 159-186
Measurement Error in Sociometry....Pages 187-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
An Empirical and Algebraic Analysis of Alternative Techniques for Measuring Unobserved Variables....Pages 215-242
Multiple Indicators: Some Criteria of Selection....Pages 243-269
Quantifying Unmeasured Variables....Pages 270-292
The Causal Approach to Measurement Error in Panel Analysis: Some Further Contingencies....Pages 293-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Measures of Association for Bivariate Ordinal Hypotheses....Pages 327-342
Ordinal Measures of Association and the General Linear Model....Pages 343-368
Nonparametric Partial Correlation....Pages 369-398
Ordinal Partial Correlation and Causal Inferences....Pages 399-423
Beyond Ordinal Measurement: Weak Tests of Stronger Theories....Pages 424-455
Back Matter....Pages 457-464