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From: weg@convx1.ccit.arizona.edu (Eythan Weg)
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Subject: Re: looking for guttman scaling algorithm
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I suggest a book which provides an algorithm:

Peter Dunn Rankin:  Scaling Methods LEA, 1983.

I used it in implementing Guttman scale in APL.  I don't recall  that size
was an issue, in programming.  It's probably less so in Perl or C.

Eythan