Many of McQuitty's various pattern-analytic methods require no more than paper and pencil calculations, but the matrices of inter-associations to which his methods are applied cannot be computed that readily in practice. This paper presents a simplified but exact method of computing Pearson's "r" based on Q-sort data set which is appropriate for McQuitty's methods.
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