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External Analyses of Preference Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Mark L. Davison
Mark L. Davison*
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University of Minnesota
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Abstract

Using Carroll's external analysis, several studies have found that unfolding models account for more, although seldom significantly more, variance in preferences than Tucker's vector model. In studies of sociometric ratings and political preferences, the unfolding model again rarely outpredicted the vector model by a significant amount. Yet on cross-validation, the unfolding model consistently accounted for more variance. Results suggest that sometimes significance tests are less sensitive than cross-validation procedures to the small but consistent superiority of the unfolding model. Future researchers may wish to use significance tests and cross-validation techniques in comparing models.

Keywords

cross-validationmultiple regressionpolitical preferencessociometric choiceutility theory

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Psychometrika , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , December 1976 , pp. 557 - 558
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Copyright © 1976 The Psychometric Society

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