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The Complete Analysis of a Data Matrix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. Hope
K. Hope*
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
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In the biological and social sciences the research worker is frequently faced with a two-dimensional, entity by variable, matrix of numbers. The matrix may contain scores of persons on tests, judgments of persons or objects by persons, measurements of physical characteristics of insects, economic statistics of areas, party votes in electoral districts, demographic or epidemiological or ecological counts of areas, and so on.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 526 , September 1969 , pp. 1069 - 1079
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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