Forrest W. Young
Forrest W. Young | |
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| Born | April 10, 1940 |
| Died | 2006 |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
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| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Thesis | A multidimensional similarities analysis of twelve choice probability learning with payoffs (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Cliff |
Forrest Wesley Young (April 10, 1940 – 2006) was a professor emeritus of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina and former President of the Psychometric Society.[1] He is the developer of ViSta a software for data visualization.[2]
Books[edit]
- Schiffman, S.S., Reynolds, M.L. & Young, F.W. (1981). Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling. New York: Academic Press.
- Young, F.W. & Sarle, W.S. (1982). Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, Inc.
- Young, F.W. & Hamer, R.M. (1987). Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory and Applications. New York: Erlbaum Associates. (reprinted, 1994)
References[edit]
- ^ "Past, Present and Incoming Presidents". psychometricsociety.org. Psychometric Society. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ Valero-Mora, Pedro; Ledesma, Rubén D.; Friendly, Michael (1 May 2012). "The History of ViSta: The Visual Statistics System". WIREs Comput Stat. 4 (3): 295–306. doi:10.1002/wics.1203.
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