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Multidimensional Scaling of Similarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Warren S. Torgerson
Warren S. Torgerson*
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University
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Psychometrika , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , December 1965 , pp. 379 - 393
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Copyright © 1965 Psychometric Society

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Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, Chicago, Illinois, September 7, 1965.

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