The Use of Mathematical Models in the Measurement of Attitudes

Edited by Paul Felix Lazarsfeld

ResearchPublished 1951

Part I: A Simple Model for Attitude Tests
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Includes Part II: Mathematical Developments in Latent Structure Analysis; Part III: The Application of Latent Structure Analysis to Problems of Reliability; Part IV: The Application of Latent Structure Analysis to Some Problems of Concept Formation in Sociology and Social Psychology; and more

Preliminary findings of a research project on attitude measurements, in which emphasis is placed on the mathematical basis of this approach and its application to empirical materials.

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Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix, ed., The Use of Mathematical Models in the Measurement of Attitudes. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1951. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM455.html.
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