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SUBMITTER: Schoonees PC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4644217 | biostudies-other | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Psychometrika 20150408 4
Dual scaling (DS) is a multivariate exploratory method equivalent to correspondence analysis when analysing contingency tables. However, for the analysis of rating data, different proposals appear in the DS and correspondence analysis literature. It is shown here that a peculiarity of the DS method can be exploited to detect differences in response styles. Response styles occur when respondents use rating scales differently for reasons not related to the questions, often biasing results. A splin ...[more]