Measurement Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Measurement

Formal measurement theory

Stevens, S.S. 1951. Mathematics, measurement and psychophysics. In
Handbook of Experimental Psychology, ed. S.S. Stevens, New York: Wiley.
S. S. Stevens (1946), Science 103, 677 [^pdf]
Luce and Narens. Science. [^pdf]
Luce. Meaningfulness and invariance. [^pdf]
D. H. Krantz, R. D. Luce, P. Suppes, A. Tversky, 1971. Foundations of Measurement. (Academic Press, New York, 1971)
F. S. Roberts. 1979. Measurement Theory. (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1979).
L. Narens, Abstract Measurement Theory (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985)
Narens. Measurement, Theory of. [pdf]
Suppes, P. and Zinnes, J.L. 1963. Basic measurement theory. In Handbook of Mathematical Psychology, Vol. 1, ed. R.D. Luce, R.R. Bush and E. Galanter, New York: Wiley.
Luce, R. D., Krantz, D. H., Suppes, P., and Tversky, A. (1990), Foundations of measurement, Vol. III: Representation, axiomatization, and invariance, New York: Academic Press.
Suppes, P., Krantz, D. H., Luce, R. D., and Tversky, A. (1989), Foundations of measurement, Vol. II: Geometrical, threshold, and probabilistic respresentations, New York: Academic Press.

Statistics and Measurement

Hand, D.J. (1996), "Statistics and the theory of measurement," with discussion, J. of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 159, 445-492 [^pdf]
Zegers, F. E., & ten Berge, J. M. F. (1985). A family of association coefficients for metric scales. Psychometrika, 50(1), 17-24 [PDF] (just skim)

Arguments against measurement level in statistics

Lord, F.M. (1953), "On the Statistical Treatment of Football Numbers," American Psychologist, 8, 750-751
Velleman, P.F., and Wilkinson, L. (1993), "Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Typologies Are Misleading," The American Statistician, 47, 65-72.

On data construction

Bernard, H. R., P. J. Pelto, O. Werner, J. Boster, A. K. Romney, A. Johnson, C. R. Ember, and A. Kasakoff. 1986. The construction of primary data in cultural anthropology. Current Anthropology 27:382-395

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