Kinship82                package:clue                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Partitions of 15 kinship terms given by 85 female undergraduates
     at Rutgers University who were asked to sort the terms into
     classes "on the basis of some aspect of meaning".

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data("Kinship82")

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A cluster ensemble of 85 hard partitions of the 15 kinship terms.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Rosenberg and Kim (1975) describe an experiment where perceived
     similarities of the kinship terms were obtained from six different
     "sorting" experiments.  These "original" Rosenberg-Kim kinship
     terms data were published in Arabie, Carroll and de Sarbo (1987),
     and are also contained in file 'indclus.data' in the shell archive
     <URL: http://www.netlib.org/mds/indclus.shar>.

     For one of the experiments, partitions of the terms were printed
     in Rosenberg (1982).  Comparison with the original data indicates
     that the partition data have the "nephew" and "niece" columns
     interchanged, which is corrected in the data set at hand.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Table 7.1 in Rosenberg (1982), with the "nephew" and "niece"
     columns interchanged.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     P. Arabie and J. D. Carroll and W. S. de Sarbo (1987). _Three-way
     scaling and clustering_. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

     S. Rosenberg and M. P. Kim (1975). The method of sorting as a
     data-gathering procedure in multivariate research. _Multivariate
     Behavioral Research_, *10*, 489-502.

     S. Rosenberg (1982). The method of sorting in multivariate
     research with applications selected from cognitive psychology and
     person perception. In N. Hirschberg and L. G. Humphreys (eds.),
     _Multivariate Applications in the Social Sciences_, 117-142.
     Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

