Entry:

Faust, Katherine and Wasserman, Stanley, "Correlation and Association Models for Studying Measurements on Ordinal Relations," Sociological Methodology, 23 (1993), 177-215.


Abstract:

This paper shows the utility of using correlation models for studying the order and spacing of response categories of ordinal relations variables.

GSS Years:

1985

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
RCLOSE1

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #1

RCLOSE2

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #2

RCLOSE3

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #3

RCLOSE4

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #4

RCLOSE5

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #5

EQCLOSE

R FEELS EQUALLY CLOSE TO ALL PERSONS

CLOSE12

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 2?

CLOSE13

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 3?

CLOSE14

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 4?

CLOSE15

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 5?

CLOSE23

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 2 AND 3?

CLOSE24

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 2 AND 4?

CLOSE25

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 2 AND 5?

CLOSE34

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 3 AND 4?

CLOSE35

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 3 AND 5?

CLOSE45

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 4 AND 5?