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Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held jointly with Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D. C., Sept. 6, 1971. This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation of the United States Government, through Grant GS-929 & -2850 to the University of Michigan.

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Guttman, L. Measurement as structural theory. Psychometrika 36, 329–347 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02291362

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