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The algorithm is applicable to structures such as are obtained from additive conjoint measurement designs, unfolding theory, general Fechnerian scaling, some special types of multidimensional scaling, and ordinal multiple regression. A description is obtained of the space containing all possible numerical representations which can satisfy the structure, the size and shape of which is informative. The Abelson-Tukey maximinr 2 solution is provided.
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This research was supported in part by NIGMS Grant GM-01231 to the University of Michigan.
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McClelland, G.H., Coombs, C.H. Ordmet: A general algorithm for constructing all numerical solutions to ordered metric structures. Psychometrika 40, 269–290 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02291758
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