PSYC 4541-003, Spring 2016
Applied Multidimensional Scaling
Lecture 9:30–10:45 Tuesday and Thursday, Muenzinger E311
Instructor:
Lew Harvey
Office Hours:
Muenzinger D251B
TBD,
in class and by appt.
Three Dimensional
Stimulus Representation
Individual Differences Scaling
In this course you will learn how to apply the powerful techniques of multidimensional scaling to psychological data. You will learn how to use the smacof package in the open source R Project for Statistical Computing for carrying out these analyses. You will read original journal articles and analyze data sets of others and of your own. The precise type of psychological data we examine will depend on the interests of the students in the class.
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- Syllabus
- How to Read a Journal Article
- Student Interest Form
- Readings available through Desire2Learn
- SMACOF
- Week 1 Data Sets
- Week 2 Color Experiment
- Week 3 Goodness-of-Fit
- Week 4 Proximities
- Week 5 Unfolding
- Week 6 Constraints
- Week 8 Clustering
- Week 9 Wine Analysis
- Week 10 Wine Analysis Continued
- Week 10 Project Template
- Week 15 Poster Template
- LOH
Last Revised on Monday, 02-May-2016 16:08