Showing papers by "Katherine Faust published in 1985"
TL;DR: It is shown that use of distance as a measure of similarity without proper attention to appropriate standardization procedures confounds information on differences between means and differences between variances with information on the similarity of the patterns between pairs of individuals.
53 citations
TL;DR: Cluster analysis was used to construct 12 peer groups based upon size, average speed and peak-to-base ratios of urban, fixed-route motor bus transit systems, and differences in operating characteristics among the peer groups were confirmed.
39 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of skewed data distributions on matrix permutation tests of association is examined, and two different data transformations are suggested which provide efficient and effective solutions, and an empirical example is presented in which incorrect results are obtained using the Mantel statistic.
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of skewed data distributions on matrix permutation tests of association. An empirical example is presented in which incorrect results are obtained using the Mantel statistic. Alternative procedures are considered, and two different data transformations are suggested which provide efficient and effective solutions. Methods for analysing related correlations as a means of evaluating the relative goodness-of-fit of alternative representations of a set of data are employed.
13 citations