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In studies involving judgments of similarity or dissimilarity, a variety of other variables may also be measured. Examples might be direct ratings of the stimuli, pairwise preference judgments, and physical measurements of the stimuli with respect to various properties. In such cases, there are important advantages to joint analyses of the dissimilarity and collateral variables. A variety of models are described for relating these and algorithms described for fitting these to data. A number of hypothesis tests are developed and an example offered.
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The research reported here was supported by grant number APA 320 to the author by the National Research Council of Canada.
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Ramsay, J.O. The joint analysis of direct ratings, pairwise preferences, and dissimilarities. Psychometrika 45, 149–165 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02294074
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