Forrest W. Young

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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]

Forrest W. Young
Born(1940-04-10)April 10, 1940
Died2006
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ThesisA multidimensional similarities analysis of twelve choice probability learning with payoffs (1967)
Doctoral advisorNorman Cliff

Books

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "Past, Present and Incoming Presidents". psychometricsociety.org. Psychometric Society. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  2. ^ 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.