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From Indices to Mappings: The Representational Approach to Measurement

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Frontiers of Mathematical Psychology

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I am pleased to be able to offer this essay on measurement in honor of Clyde Coombs. It was Coombs, more than anyone else, who saw the relevance of qualitative measurement structures to behavioral science theory and data, and who inspired his students to test axioms by carefully designed experiments. Though I was not his student, my work benefitted for many years from his encouragement, and from his intense joy in the struggle to understand.

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    Donald R. Brown

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    J. E. Keith Smith

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Krantz, D.H. (1991). From Indices to Mappings: The Representational Approach to Measurement. In: Brown, D.R., Keith Smith, J.E. (eds) Frontiers of Mathematical Psychology. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3088-5_1

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