Thurstone's Case V has been applied to the study of travellers' attitudes toward various modes of transportation. This paper discusses the validity of this application by examining three assumptions of the Case V as well as the problem of dimensionality. Assumptions are violated tentatively one at a time. The results suggest that the problem of dimensionality and the assumption of equal variances have to be verified before the Case V can be applied successfully to studies of transportation.
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