Norman Cliff

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Norman Cliff received his Ph.D. from Princeton in psychometrics in 1957. After research positions in the US Public Health Service and at Educational Testing Service, he joined, in 1962, the University of Southern California. He has had a number of research interests, including quantification of cognitive processes, scaling and measurement theory, computer-interactive psychological measurement, multivariate statistics, and ordinal methods. One of his major contributions to psychometrics was the method for rotation of canonical components. He has been president of the Psychometric Society and of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. Now an Emeritus Professor, he lives in New Mexico.

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  • Cliff, N., & Krus, D. J. (1976) Interpretation of canonical analysis: Rotated vs. unrotated solutions. Psychometrika, 41, 35-42.(Request reprint).
  • Cliff, N. (1987) Analyzing Multivariate Data. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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