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GRIDSTAT is a DOS-based
menu-driven program designed to carry out a wide range of analyses of a
repertory grid. The grid must be set out in a simple (but fixed)
fashion in a text file
which is read into the program. From there a series of menus allow for
a
choice of analysis including:
- analysis
of variance, basic descriptive statistics and correlations;
- a
number of factor analytic options including; component analysis of
construct correlations with many rotation options, singular value decomposition
(INGRID) analysis, and correspondence
analysis. All of these allow for
interactive choice as to the number of factors.
- Cluster analysis using correlations or city-block or Euclidean distances with a number of methods
(eg single, complete, or average linkage)
- Asymmetry
analysis, as discussed in Bell (in press), and
- Dependency grid analysis including the
indices
proposed by Walker, Ramsay, and Bell (1988) and Bell (2001)
The
program is put together by Richard Bell (Bell, 1998), is free, and is
available elsewhere on this website. While it is crude, it is
flexible and easy
to change, hence it incorporates the current whims and interests of its
author, and embodies the spirit of both Kelly, with its
destructive alternativism, and Microsoft, with a new version released
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References
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- Bell,
R. C. (1998) GRIDSTAT: A program for analysing the data of a
repertory grid. [Computer software] Melbourne: Author.
- Bell,
R. C. (2001) Some new measures of the dispersion of dependency in
a situation-resource grid. Journal of Constructivist Psychology,
14, 303-311.
- Walker,
B. M., Ramsay, F. L., & Bell, R. C. (1988) Dispersed and
undispersed dependency. International Journal of Personal Construct
Psychology, 1, 63-80.
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Richard C. Bell
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