Would James Madison, the great theorist of the American compound republic, believe that association is a workable model for a world government? This paper offers a preliminary sketch of an argument that he would not think such a project can be successful. Since he believed republics require...

A simple example is presented which shows that interpreting likelihood ratios as relative degrees of support can be very misleading. It also demonstrates that the maximum likelihood estimator can be an exceedingly poor estimator.

The need for scale conversion may arise whenever an attitude of individuals is measured by independent entrepreneurs each using an ordinal scale of its own with possibly different numbers of (arbitrary) ordinal categories. Such situations are quite common in the marketing realm. The conversion...