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IN certain psychological scaling techniques, direct pair comparison judgments of the differences between, or ratios of, magnitudes of attributes of objects (for example, volume or pitch of tones, heaviness of weights, painfulness of electric shocks) are elicited from a single subject1. We have investigated the statistical analysis of data thus obtained and the problem of optimal experimental design.
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PHILLIPS, J., HUTCHINGS, R. & THOMPSON, J. Analysis and Design of Certain Scaling Experiments. Nature 215, 897–898 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215897a0
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