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THE RESCALING OF TEACHERS' ESTIMATES
Author(s) -
Pilliner A. E. G.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
british journal of statistical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.157
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2044-8317
pISSN - 0950-561X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1958.tb00013.x
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , statistics , mathematics , regression , line (geometry) , distribution (mathematics) , principal axis theorem , computer science , mathematical analysis , geometry , operating system
Four methods of rescaling are described, and their advantages and disadvantages for different types of problem are discussed in detail. Each method has been applied to data obtained from a complete age‐group of over 900 children. So far as they go, the results clearly show that for general purposes the method based on the ‘orthogonal mean square regression line’ (i.e. on the principal axis) of the distribution, which is in fact the method in general use, is the most efficient.