Fundamentals of Applied Multidimensional Scaling for Educational and Psychological Research

• Main Author: Ding, Cody S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Statistics .; Psychometrics.; Education-Research.; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.; Research Methods in Education.

This book explores the fundamentals of multidimensional scaling (MDS) and how this analytic method can be used in applied setting for educational and psychological research. The book tries to make MDS more accessible to a wider audience in terms of the language and examples that are more relevant to...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Data issues of MDS
• Chapter 3: Metric vas non-metric MDS model
• Chapter 4: Model selection and interpretation
• Chapter 5: Basic MDS analysis
• Chapter 6: Visualization of data structure by MDS
• Chapter 7: Individual differences MDS analysis
• Chapter 8: MDS Preference Analysis
• Chapter 9: Configuration Similarities
• Chapter 10: Latent Profile analysis
• Chapter 11: Longitudinal analysis using MDS
• Chapter 12: Testing pattern hypotheses with MDS
• Chapter 13: Mean-level change vs. pattern change
• Chapter 14: Historical review.