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A Note on Monotone Polygons Fitted to Bivariate Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Roderick P. McDonald
Roderick P. McDonald*
Affiliation:
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
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Requests for reprints should be sent to R. P. McDonald, Department of M.E. and C.A., The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6.
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Abstract

The monotone regression function of Kruskal and the rank image function of Guttman and Lingoes were fitted to bivariate normal samples and their statistical properties contrasted.

Keywords

rank imagenonmetric regression

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Original Paper
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Psychometrika , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , December 1976 , pp. 543 - 546
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

This paper was written while the author was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology, University College, London.

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