Hubert, L J; Kenny, T; Golledge, R G; Richardson, G D - In: Environment and Planning A 13 (1981) 3, pp. 309-320
The problem of validating a given unidimensional scale (that is, an ordering of a set of objects along a single dimension) is discussed in terms of a few simple properties of the data used to obtain the scale. Based on a set of asymmetric proximity values as raw data, a distinction between...