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Forrest W. Young

American psychologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ29026726 ↗
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Forrest Wesley Young (April 10, 1940 – 2006) was a professor emeritus of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina and President of the Psychometric Society. He is the developer of ViSta a software for data visualization.

Books

Schiffman, S.S., Reynolds, M.L. & Young, F.W. (1981). Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling. New York: Academic Press.

Young, F.W. & Sarle, W.S. (1982). Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, Inc.

Young, F.W. & Hamer, R.M. (1987). Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory and Applications.

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