A Parametric Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Q-Sort Data.
William D. Heavlin · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1981
The operation of sorting the items of a Q-set according to their similarity to a given object is idealized by a system of axioms. As a consequence of this axiom system, a stochastic model of Q-sorting behavior is derived. This model, with its associated axioms, resembles in some respects the preference model of Luce; the two are compared at length.