Louis Guttman
Biographic Data
| ID | 232579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Guttman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Guttman |
| SIGNATURE | GUTTMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
On the Multivariate Structure of Wellbeing
The Irrelevance of Factor Analysis for the Study of Group Differences
(1992). The Irrelevance of Factor Analysis for the Study of Group Differences. Multivariate Behavioral Research: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 175-204
The conical structure of adjustive behavior
The Illogic of Statistical Inference for Cumulative Science
Entre les mathématiciens, les statisticiens et les chercheurs en sciences sociales il y a une communication volumineuse de connaissances et d'outils conceptuels, d'habitude dans le sens des premiers vers les derniers. Mais cette communication est loin d'être parfaite, engendrant ainsi des lacunes plus ou moins importantes à chacune des étapes et cumulant surtout à la dernière étape : celle de l'utilisation des outils mathématiques et statistiques…
What Is Not What in Statistics
Some 40 years ago, Harold Hotelling pointed out that the statistical textbooks of that period were written largely by non-mathematicians. Those books were full of misconceptions, and were rather uniformly unaware of the new and dramatic development of the mathematical discipline of statistical inference. They did not take advantage of the sharpened logic for making decisions about populations on the basis of sample statistics, including the impro…
Statistical Inference Revisited - 1984
On the definition and varieties of attitude and wellbeing
Malos usos en Estadística
El sociólogo debe ser muy prudente en el uso de conceptos estadísticos. La estadística matemática y la sociológica emplean términos similares pero que poseen diferentes significados. Un término de esta clase es ?probabilidad?. Para el matemático, semejante concepto no encierra ningún equívoco: expresa la certeza que implica la inclusión de un item en un modelo matemático. Sin embargo, el empleo de dicho término por parte de los sociólogos admite …
Malos usos en estadística (What Is Not What in Statistics)
La estadistica ofrece actualmente un repertorio esplendido de instrumentos de analisis para el sociologo. Si los utiliza adecuadamente, el. sociologo puede estudiar un numero creciente de problemas de investigacion. Ahora bien, la estadistica, para que pueda cumplir su papel adecuadamente, debe utilizarse en conjuncion con la teoria y con los metodos de investigacion. La «tecnificacion» exagerada de la investigacion sociologica que se observa en …
Structure and Dynamics of Worries
On the multivariate structure of wellbeing
Social Problem Indicators
By use of a mapping sentence, a universe of observations is defined for social problem indicators. Emphasis is made on the concept of "problem" in order to distinguish such an observation from other observations of social behavior. Similarly, a more detailed mapping sentence is presented for observations of data to guide policy formation of government ministries. Illustrations are given from the Continuing Survey conducted in Israel. Distinction …
Smallest space analysis of intelligence and achievement tests
A General Nonmetric Technique for Finding the Smallest Coordinate Space for a Configuration of Points
Let A 1 , A 2 , ..., A n be any n objects, such as variables, categories, people, social groups, ideas, physical objects, or any other. The empirical data to be analyzed are coefficients of similarity or distance within pairs ( A i , A i ), such as correlation coefficients, conditional probabilities or likelihoods, psychological choice or confusion, etc. It is desired to represent these data parsimoniously in a coordinate space, by calculating m …
Systematic Construction of Distractors for Ability and Achievement Test Items
DISTRACTORS, according to the definition given by English and English (1958), &dquo;are designed to be attractive... to the respond-ent who does not know the correct answer.&dquo; Keeping the correct answer company is usually regarded the only function of dis-tractors, and sufficient attraction is deemed sufficient qualification for being a good distractor. Hence, distractors are usually con-structed initially on the basis of intuition as to what…
The Development of Nonmetric Space Analysis: A Letter to Professor John Ross
Nonmetric Factor Analysis: A Rank Reducing Alternative To Linear Factor Analysis
(1967). Nonmetric Factor Analysis: A Rank Reducing Alternative To Linear Factor Analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 485-505
Cross‐ethnic variation in dental, sensory and perceptual traits: A nonmetric multibivariate derivation of distances for ethnic groups and traits
The central concern of this paper is to illustrate how four apparently unrelated classes of variables — dental, perceptual, ethnic origin, and other — can be comprehended within a single parsimonious space, even though some of the measures were qualitative, others quantitative. Thirty‐five hundred Israeli villagers of varied ethnic origin were examined on several aspects of oral epidemiology, a battery of tests relating to estimation of number, a…
The Relative Associational Contiguity of Occupations in an Urban Setting
Following a tradition that emphasizes an associational definition of social class, we have applied the new technique of smallest space analysis to the reported informal associations of an urban sample of 422 white men. We defined a social class as a subset of a population determined by partitioning of the total population according to such associational relationships as consanguineal and affinal kinship, friendship, and common residence. Three di…
Immigrants on the Threshold
Migration and Belonging: A Study of Mental Health and Personal Adjustment in Israel
A Structural Theory For Intergroup Beliefs and Action
Theory and Methods of Scaling
What Lies Ahead for Factor Analysis
Empirical Verification of the Radex Structure of Mental Abilities and Personality Traits1
A Basis for Scaling Qualitative Data
IN A GREAT deal of research in the social and psychological sciences, interest lies in certain large classes of qualitative observations. For example, research in marriage is concerned with a class of qualitative behavior called marital adjustment, which includes an indefinitely large number of interactions between husband and wife. Public opinion research is concerned with large classes of behavior like expressions of opinion by Americans about …
The Relative Associational Contiguity of Occupations in an Urban Setting
Following a tradition that emphasizes an associational definition of social class, we have applied the new technique of smallest space analysis to the reported informal associations of an urban sample of 422 white men. We defined a social class as a subset of a population determined by partitioning of the total population according to such associational relationships as consanguineal and affinal kinship, friendship, and common residence. Three di…
On the multivariate structure of wellbeing
A Structural Theory For Intergroup Beliefs and Action
Structure and Dynamics of Worries
On the definition and varieties of attitude and wellbeing
An Outline of Some New Methodology for Social Research
Journal Article An Outline of Some New Methodology for Social Research Get access LOUIS GUTTMAN LOUIS GUTTMAN The author is the Director of the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, WINTER 1954, Pages 395–404, https://doi.org/10.1086/266532 Published: 01 January 1954
Smallest space analysis of intelligence and achievement tests
Social Problem Indicators
By use of a mapping sentence, a universe of observations is defined for social problem indicators. Emphasis is made on the concept of "problem" in order to distinguish such an observation from other observations of social behavior. Similarly, a more detailed mapping sentence is presented for observations of data to guide policy formation of government ministries. Illustrations are given from the Continuing Survey conducted in Israel. Distinction …
Intensity and a Zero Point for Attitude Analysis
A Revision of Chapin's Social Status Scale
L individual or a family occupies with reference to the prevailing average standards of cultural possessions, effective income, material possessions, and participation in the group activities of the community.' In an effort to derive useful quantitative values for this type of social status, Chapin has built a scale which is based on the equipment and condition of living rooms of urban homes. A description of the various stages of development of …
The conical structure of adjustive behavior
Migration and Belonging: A Study of Mental Health and Personal Adjustment in Israel
Cross‐ethnic variation in dental, sensory and perceptual traits: A nonmetric multibivariate derivation of distances for ethnic groups and traits
The central concern of this paper is to illustrate how four apparently unrelated classes of variables — dental, perceptual, ethnic origin, and other — can be comprehended within a single parsimonious space, even though some of the measures were qualitative, others quantitative. Thirty‐five hundred Israeli villagers of varied ethnic origin were examined on several aspects of oral epidemiology, a battery of tests relating to estimation of number, a…
Studies in Social Psychology in World War II. Vol. IV, Measurement and Prediction
Social Contact and an Intergroup Attitude
NUMEROUS studies have indicated that changes in the direction of intergroup attitudes are positively related to changes in the extent of intergroup contact. The present article reports on a study conducted by the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research in which this line of analysis is totally inapplicable. The authors found by means of scale and intensity analysis that amount of contact was not, in fact, related to the direction of the attit…
On Festinger's evaluation of scale analysis
Theory and Methods of Scaling
"The Prediction of Personal Adjustment" A Symposium: A Criticism of the Prediction of Personal Adjustment
A Revision of Chapin's Social Status Scale
L individual or a family occupies with reference to the prevailing average standards of cultural possessions, effective income, material possessions, and participation in the group activities of the community.' In an effort to derive useful quantitative values for this type of social status, Chapin has built a scale which is based on the equipment and condition of living rooms of urban homes. A description of the various stages of development of …
The Prediction of Personal Adjustment
A Basis for Scaling Qualitative Data
IN A GREAT deal of research in the social and psychological sciences, interest lies in certain large classes of qualitative observations. For example, research in marriage is concerned with a class of qualitative behavior called marital adjustment, which includes an indefinitely large number of interactions between husband and wife. Public opinion research is concerned with large classes of behavior like expressions of opinion by Americans about …
A Basis for Analyzing Test-Retest Reliability
Three sources of variation in experimental results for a test are distinguished: trials, persons, and items. Unreliability is defined only in terms of variation over trials. This definition leads to a more complete analysis than does the conventional one; Spearman's contention is verified that the conventional approach—which was formulated by Yule—introduces unnecessary hypotheses. It is emphasized that at least two trials are necessary to estima…
Statistical Adjustment of Data
Problems in Prejudice.Eugene Hartley
The Cornell Technique for Scale and Intensity Analysis
Foundations of the Social Sciences
Foundations of the Measurement of Values. Bertha B. Friedman
"A Solution to the Problem of Question "Bias
Intensity and a Zero Point for Attitude Analysis
On Festinger's evaluation of scale analysis
Measurement and Prediction (Studies in Social Psychology in World War II, Vol. IV)
Studies in Social Psychology in World War II. Vol. IV, Measurement and Prediction
Social Contact and an Intergroup Attitude
NUMEROUS studies have indicated that changes in the direction of intergroup attitudes are positively related to changes in the extent of intergroup contact. The present article reports on a study conducted by the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research in which this line of analysis is totally inapplicable. The authors found by means of scale and intensity analysis that amount of contact was not, in fact, related to the direction of the attit…
Image Theory for the Structure of Quantitative Variates
A universe of infinitely many quantitative variables is considered, from which a sample of n variables is arbitrarily selected. Only linear least-squares regressions are considered, based on an infinitely large population of individuals or respondents. In the sample of variables, the predicted value of a variable x from the remaining n − 1 variables is called the partial image of x , and the error of prediction is called the partial anti-image of…
On Smith's Paper on "'Randomness of Error' in Reproducible Scales"
Some Necessary Conditions for Common-Factor Analysis
Let R be any correlation matrix of order n , with unity as each main diagonal element. Common-factor analysis, in the Spearman-Thurstone sense, seeks a diagonal matrix U 2 such that G = R − U 2 is Gramian and of minimum rank r . Let s 1 be the number of latent roots of R which are greater than or equal to unity. Then it is proved here that r ≥ s 1 . Two further lower bounds to r are also established that are better than s 1 . Simple computing pro…
An Outline of Some New Methodology for Social Research
Journal Article An Outline of Some New Methodology for Social Research Get access LOUIS GUTTMAN LOUIS GUTTMAN The author is the Director of the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, WINTER 1954, Pages 395–404, https://doi.org/10.1086/266532 Published: 01 January 1954
Empirical Verification of the Radex Structure of Mental Abilities and Personality Traits1
What Lies Ahead for Factor Analysis
A Structural Theory For Intergroup Beliefs and Action
Theory and Methods of Scaling
Migration and Belonging: A Study of Mental Health and Personal Adjustment in Israel
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