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THE INTERNET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF
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INGRID is the name by
which Patrick Slater’s programme to analyse the data of a repertory
grid is best known. It was originally published as "Grid Analysis II"
in Slater (1964). [Presumably there was an unpublished Grid Analysis
I.] Technically, the analysis is a singular-value-decomposition
of construct
centred grid data. The best account of it can be found in Slater
(1977).
The general use of the grid in Britain may have been largely due to the
availability
of an MRC funded "scoring service" provided by Patrick Slater at the
Institute
of Psychiatry. Slater (1976) reported that by 1973 the service was
processing 10,000 grids per year. From that time the MRC directed the
programme be
distributed to various computer centres. It was somewhat slower to be
adapted
for microcomputers due to the relatively complex analysis involved
which
was written in the then mainframe computer language FORTRAN, although
it
eventually appeared in various guises in a number of PC computer
programmes.
Currently it is available as an automatic choice in several Windows
based
programmes (listed below), although it can also be carried out in other
programmes
such as GRIDSTAT.
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Richard C. Bell
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