H-COMP - A PROGRAM TO CALCULATE INFORMATION COMPLEXITY

Scott's (1969) H is a statistic that represents the number of independ ent dimensions in a set of binary (1,0) data. H has been used by perso nality and social psychologists to measure the complexity of thought p eople have about themselves (self-complexity) and about other people. This article describes H-Comp, a program that calculates H. Using data input from either the keyboard or from an ASCII data file, H-Comp cal culates H and writes the resulting score and raw data to output files. H-Comp provides an accurate and efficient way to calculate H.