TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - An Algorithm for Converting Ordinal Scale Measurement Data to Interval/Ratio Scale
JO  - Educational and psychological measurement
A1  - Granberg-Rademacker, J. Scott
SP  - 74
EP  - 90
VL  - 70
IS  - 1
N2  - The extensive use of survey instruments in the social sciences has long created debate and concern about validity of outcomes, especially among instruments that gather ordinal-level data. Ordinal-level survey measurement of concepts that could be measured at the interval or ratio level produce errors because respondents are forced to truncate or round off their responses to fit a given ordinal scale. This article presents a Markov chain Monte Carlo modeling technique that converts ordinal measurements to interval/ ratio. Simulated data demonstrate the robustness of this technique, and implications of this technique are discussed.<p />
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SN  - 0013-1644
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013164409344532
ID  - ref1
ER  -