The Use of Psychophysical Unfolding Theory to Determine Principal Resource Axes
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 114 (5), 695-706
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283517
Abstract
The ecological applications of a psychophysical scaling technique called unfolding are explained and illustrated. All information contained in a set of individuals'' ordinal preference rankings for an array of resources can be preserved in an unfolded form. Unfolding shows the subjective dimension to which the animals attended in selecting available resources.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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