Citations with the tag: ORDINAL measurement
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- CONTEMPORARY CRITICS: A QUANTUM WAVE MODEL OF VALUE THEORY: Ordinal Ranking of Values.
Moore, Mark A.; Edwards, Rem B. // Formal Axiology & Its Critics; 1995, p203The article presents the ordinal ranking of values through the use of quantum wave model.
- Hierarchical thinking and learning in rank order contests.
Carare, Octavian; Haruvy, Ernan; Prasad, Ashutosh // Experimental Economics; Sep2007, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p305We analyze a class of coordination games in which the Kth player to submit an entry wins a contest. These games have an infinite number of symmetric equilibria and the set of equilibria does not change with K. We run experiments with 15 participants and with K=3, 7, and 11. Our experiments show...
- Mokken Scale Analysis: Between the Guttman Scale and Parametric Item Response Theory.
W.H. van Schuur // Political Analysis; Apr2003, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p139This article introduces a model of ordinal unidimensional measurement known as Mokken scale analysis. Mokken scaling is based on principles of Item Response Theory (IRT) that originated in the Guttman scale. I compare the Mokken model with both Classical Test Theory (reliability or factor...
- Utility.
Sears, Louis // Region Focus; Fall2011, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p10The article discusses the conception of the nature of utility in the U.S. and the significant change on how it should be measured. It notes that some economists adopt the concept of looking at the order in which an individual desires various outcomes referring the person's ordinal utility...
- Descending Indexes: Index ordering, parallelism, and ranking calculations.
Ben-Gan, Itzik // SQL Server Magazine; Jun2010, Vol. 12 Issue 6, p21The article focuses on special cases associated to backward index ordering and provides recommendations and guidelines with regards to when to employ descending indexes. It describes the cases wherein index ordering can be depended upon in both backward and forward linked list order, as...
- MULTIMOORA FOR THE EU MEMBER STATES UPDATED WITH FUZZY NUMBER THEORY.
Ben-Gan, Itzik // Technological & Economic Development of Economy; 2011, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p259No abstract available.
- A Vocational Preference Rank Technique.
Dent, Oran B.; Elder, R. F. // Personnel & Guidance Journal; Apr65, Vol. 43 Issue 8, p801The relationship between Ruder Vocational scale positions obtained by a rank order method, and ranks obtained from the Ruder Preference Record Vocational Form CR Profile Sheet, was found for 39 male psychiatric patients at a Veterans Administration Hospital. Correlations were significantly...
- Business Environment Ranking.
Dent, Oran B.; Elder, R. F. // Mexico Oil & Gas Report; Q1 2009, p34The article focuses on the Business Environment ranking in Latin America. It states that the regional Business Environment scoring system integrates many industry-specific elements and a modern approach to political and economic risk assessment. The ranking provides a detailed analysis of the...
- Opening the Nasal Valve with External Dilators Reduces Congestive Symptoms in Normal Subjects.
Latte, Jenny; Taverner, David // American Journal of Rhinology; Mar/Apr2005, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p215Background: We examined whether the use of two different external nasal dilator devices influenced the size of the nasal valve area and symptoms of nasal congestion. Methods: This was a randomized blind-allocation, open three- way crossover study of Breathe Right, Side Strip Nasal Dilators, and...
- On Certain Indices for Ordinal Data with Unequally Weighted Classes.
Perakis, M.; Maravelakis, P.; Psarakis, S.; Xekalaki, E.; Panaretos, J. // Quality & Quantity; Oct2005, Vol. 39 Issue 5, p515In this paper, some new indices for ordinal data are introduced. These indices have been developed so as to measure the degree of concentration on the �small� or the �large� values of a variable whose level of measurement is ordinal. Their advantage in relation to other approaches is...
- Miscellany A Note on Modelling Tournaments.
Koh, Winston T.H. // Journal of Economics; 1992, Vol. 55 Issue 3, p297Existing studies on tournaments utilize different specifications of the production function. Comparison of these results is difficult. This paper shows that the strategic behavior of agents in a tournament can be analyzed more generally using a specification of the production function along the...
- Star Ratings.
Koh, Winston T.H. // PSA Journal; Oct2006, Vol. 72 Issue 10, p32This section presents the star ratings of several photography compilations by members of the Photographic Society of America. Members whose works were ranked include Laura J. Davies, Evelyn M. Greaves, Nick Muskovac, Carol Bailey, Philomena V. Martin, Tom Hardy, Dennis Corbin, Ernie Rairdin and...
- A COMPARISON OF ERROR IN FIVE SORTING PROCEDURES FOR ORDINAL RANKING.
Madden, Joseph M.; Hazel, Joe T.; Bourdon, Roger D. // Journal of Applied Psychology; Jun65, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p170The effect or sorting procedures on ranking error was investigated. Different groups of Ss ranked a series of 50 stimulus cards using 5 different sorting methods. Significant differences in ranking errors among the 5 methods were observed, with a "free" procedure showing less error than...
- Coding lemmata in L.
Kafkoulis, George // Archive for Mathematical Logic; Feb2004, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p193Under the assumption that there exists an elementary embedding(henceforth abbreviated as and in particular under we prove a Coding Lemma for and find certain versions of it which are equivalent to strong regularity of cardinals below . We also prove that a stronger version of the Coding Lemma...
- An ordinal analysis of stability.
Rathjen, Michael // Archive for Mathematical Logic; Jan2005, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p1This paper is the first in a series of three which culminates in an ordinal analysis of ?12-comprehension. On the set-theoretic side ?12-comprehension corresponds to Kripke-Platek set theory,KP, plus S1-separation. The strength of the latter theory is encapsulated in the fact that it proves the...
- An ordinal analysis of parameter free ?12-comprehension.
Rathjen, Michael // Archive for Mathematical Logic; Apr2005, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p263This paper is the second in a series of three culminating in an ordinal analysis of ?12-comprehension. Its objective is to present an ordinal analysis for the subsystem of second order arithmetic with ?12-comprehension, bar induction and ?12-comprehension for formulae without set parameters....
- On 'Ordinal Path Analysis'
Wilson, Thomas P. // Social Forces; Sep74, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p120ABSTRACT In a recent paper Smith proposes a solution to the longstanding problem of multivariate analysis with ordinal data, but it is argued that Smith has not dealt adequately with the question of empirically relevant interpretation and that the problem remains unsolved. It is proposed...
- LOT: a tool for linkage analysis of ordinal traits for pedigree data.
Meizhuo Zhang; Rui Feng; Xiang Chen; Buqu Hu; Heping Zhang // Bioinformatics; Aug2008, Vol. 24 Issue 15, p1737Summary: Existing linkage-analysis methods address binary or quantitative traits. However, many complex diseases and human conditions, particularly behavioral disorders, are rated on ordinal scales. Herein, we introduce, LOT, a tool that performs linkage analysis of ordinal traits for pedigree...
- Achievable Hierarchies In Voting Games.
Friedman, Jane; Mcgrath, Lynn; Parker, Cameron // Theory & Decision; Dec2006, Vol. 61 Issue 4, p305Previous work by Diffo Lambo and Moulen [Theory and Decision 53, 313�325 (2002)] and Felsenthal and Machover [ The Measurement of Voting Power, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited (1998)], shows that all swap preserving measures of voting power are ordinally equivalent on any swap robust simple...
- Social choice and the status quo.
Richelson, Jeffrey T. // Public Choice; 1984, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p225Discusses social choice and status quo as options that are available to voters in an election. Theoretical outcome of an election using the plurality of rank-order method; Consequence of using a social choice procedure that does not distinguish between the status quo and its challengers;...
- Qualitative multiple criteria choice analysis.
Hinloopen, Edwin; Nijkamp, Peter // Quality & Quantity; Feb90, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p37In recent years an avalanche of literature has been published in the field of multiple criteria analysis. This methodology for decision-making and evaluation serves to find the best compromise solutions among alternative choice options, taking into account the existence of conflicting judgment...
- A NOTE ON PARACOMPACT p-SPACES AND THE MONOTONE D-PROPERTY.
GAO, YIN-ZHU; SHI, WEI-XUE // Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society; Jun2011, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p463For any generalized ordered space X with the underlying linearly ordered topological space Xu, let X* be the minimal closed linearly ordered extension of X and $\tilde (X)$ be the minimal dense linearly ordered extension of X. The following results are obtained. (1)The projection mapping p:X*?X,...
- New Solvable Conditions and a New Expression of the General Solution to a System of Linear Matrix Equations over an Arbitrary Division Ring.
Chunyan Lin; Qingwen Wang // Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics; 2005, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p755In this paper, we consider the system {A1X = C1 {XB2 = C2 {A3XB3 = C3 over F, an arbitrary division ring. New necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and a new expression of the general solution to the system are derived. As particular cases, the corresponding results on the other...
- What is an �endogenous state space�?
Sagi, Jacob S. // Economic Theory; Feb2006, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p305In the literature on choice under unforeseen contingencies, the decision maker behaves as if she aggregates possible instances of future rankings indexed by a setS. The setSis interpreted as a subjective state space even though subsequent rankings need not conform to any one of the aggregated...
- Collapsing Ordered Outcome Categories: A Note of Concern.
Str�mberg, Ulf // American Journal of Epidemiology; 1996, Vol. 144 Issue 4, p421When analyzing and interpreting data from an epidemiologic study where ordinal (ordered categorical) outcomes have been measured in different exposure groups, an effect parameter of interest is the common odds ratio implied by the proportional odds model. This model can sometimes be applied to a...
- A PSEUDOCOMPACT TYCHONOFF SPACE THAT IS NOT STAR LINDEL�F.
SONG, YANKUI // Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society; Dec2011, Vol. 84 Issue 3, p452Let P be a topological property. A space X is said to be star P if whenever ? is an open cover of X, there exists a subspace A?X with property P such that X=St(A,?), where St(A,?)=? {U??:UnA?0?}. In this paper we construct an example of a pseudocompact Tychonoff space that is not star...
- PRODUCTS OF BASE-?-PARACOMPACT SPACES AND COMPACT SPACES.
MOU, LEI // Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society; Dec2011, Vol. 84 Issue 3, p387Let ? be a regular ordinal with ?=?1. Then we prove that (?+1)�? is not base-countably metacompact. This implies that base-?-paracompactness is not an inverse invariant of perfect mappings, which answers a question asked by Yamazaki.
- Algorithmic decision rule using ordinal criteria importance coefficients with a first ordinal metric scale.
Nelyubin, A.; Podinovski, V. // Computational Mathematics & Mathematical Physics; Jan2012, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p43An exact computational method is proposed for the preferability comparison of various solution variants in multicriteria problems with importance-ordered criteria using a common scale along which the growth of preferences slows down.
- The possibility of group choice: pairwise comparisons and merging functions.
Saaty, Thomas; Vargas, Luis // Social Choice & Welfare; Mar2012, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p481Preferences in Arrow's conditions are ordinal. Here we show that when intensity of preference represented by reciprocal pairwise comparisons is considered, it is always possible to construct an Arrowian social welfare function using a two-stage social choice process. In stage 1, the individual...
- A Three-Step Guide to Developing Effective Surveys.
DERRINGTON, MARY LYNNE // Principal; Mar/Apr2009, Vol. 88 Issue 4, p46The article discusses ways that educational professionals can create surveys that aid decision making for school improvement efforts. The author suggests that survey questions be clear and specific and not utilize stereotypes or slang. She recommends the use of ordinal scales to measure...
- TRANZITYVIŪ SANTYKIŪ YPATYBIŪ ĮTAKA 4-6 MET Ū AMŽIAUS VAIKŪ IŠVADOMS.
Vaidelienė, Indrė; Martišius, Vaclovas // International Journal of Psychology: A Biopsychosocial Approach ; 2010, Issue 5, p59Background. The article focuses on an understudied problem regarding the influence of transitive relation specific characteristics on inferences made by 4 to 6 year-old children. Material and methods. The major part of the research has been conducted in accordance with the methodology employed...
- Application of Multimedia Technology to Study the Ordinal Competences of Children from 3 to 7 years old.
Hern�ndez, Pedro; Gonz�lez, Jos� Luis // International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education; 2011, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p127The main purpose of this paper is to present an ongoing research study on the evolution of pre-numerical and preinductive levels of ordinal thought in students from three to seven years old. Our methodology is based on multimedia technology, an automatic and objective record of the data and...
- The Revising Method for Fuzzy Judgment Matrix without Ordinal Consistency.
Xixiang Zhang; Guangxue Yue; Xiaojing Liu; Fei Yu // Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Proces; 2009, p309Ordinal consistency is the prerequisite of a fuzzy judgment matrix. Based on the transitivity of its superior relation, two concepts of non-transitive route number and non-transitive route contribution number were put forward. Through the nontransitive route number and non-transitive route...
- Selection of a Representative Value Function for Robust Ordinal Regression in Group Decision Making.
Kadziński, Miłosz; Greco, Salvatore; Słowiński, Roman // Group Decision & Negotiation; May2013, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p429In this paper, we introduce the concept of a representative value function in a group decision context. We extend recently proposed methods UTA-GROUP and UTADIS-GROUP with selection of a compromise and collective preference model which aggregates preferences of several decision makers (DMs) and...
- Building an ethical environment improves patient privacy and satisfaction in the crowded emergency department: a quasi-experimental study.
Yen-Ko Lin; Wei-Che Lee; Liang-Chi Kuo; Yuan-Chia Cheng; Chia-Ju Lin; Hsing-Lin Lin; Chao-Wen Chen; Tsung-Ying Lin // BMC Medical Ethics; 2013, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p1Background: To evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention in improving emergency department (ED) patient privacy and satisfaction in the crowded ED setting. Methods: A pre- and post-intervention study was conducted. A multifaceted intervention was implemented in a...
- ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Litzenberger, Robert H.; Joy, O. Maurice; Jones, Charles P. // Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis; Jun71, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p1057The article presents an integration model for ordinal stock returns and risk estimates as an operational and practical extension to the portfolio selection theory of Harry Markowitz in lieu of the additional data required by the standard model. A set of single-stage earnings-price ratio...
- Contingent payments in selection contests.
Clark, Derek; Riis, Christian // Review of Economic Design; 2007, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p125The early literature on research contests stressed the advantages of a fixed prize in inspiring R&D effort. More recently the focus has moved towards endogenizing the rewards to research activity in these tournament settings, since this can induce extra effort or enhance the surplus of the...
- THE RELATION BETWEEN OBJECTIVITY AND VALIDITY IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF ITEMS IN RANK ORDER.
Smith, Francis F. // Journal of Applied Psychology; Feb36, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p154The article examines the relationship between objectivity and validity in the arrangement of items in rank order within the context of three studies on the subject. The first study consisted of seven methods of evaluating student achievement that were written on the blackboard in alphabetical...
- The Relationship Between Ordinal Measures and Their Underlying Values: Why All the Disagreement?
O'brien, Robert M. // Quality & Quantity; Jun85, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p265Some variables used in the social sciences can best be conceptualized as having discrete underlying distributions and others as having "discrete ordinal" underlying distributions. However, the most frequently used variables are probably best conceptualized as having a continuous interval-level...
- Validity of Using a Panoramic Radiograph for Initial Dental Classification of Army Recruits.
Chaffin, Jeffrey G.; Hennessy, Bernard J.; Cripps, Kathryn A. // Military Medicine; May2004, Vol. 169 Issue 5, p368Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the validity of classifying Initial Entry Training (IET) soldiers into dental fitness classification 2 or 3 based solely on examining panoramic radiographs. Materials and Methods: The dental readiness classification, derived from a clinical...
- NOMINAL-ORDINAL MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION: A COMPARISON OF TWO MEASURES.
Berry, Kenneth J.; Johnston, Janis E.; Mielke Jr., Paul W. // Perceptual & Motor Skills; Aug2009, Vol. 109 Issue 1, p285The measurement of the magnitude of association between a nominal independent variable and an ordinal dependent variable is an important, but neglected, component in psychological research. Two measures of nominal-ordinal association are described and compared. Resampling permutation methods are...
- Unfolding Incomplete Data: Guidelines for Unfolding Row-Conditional Rank Order Data with Random Missings.
Busing, Frak M. T. A.; De Rooij, Mark // Journal of Classification; 2009, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p329Unfolding creates configurations from preference information. In this paper, it is argued that not all preference information needs to be collected and that good solutions are still obtained, even when more than half of the data is missing. Simulation studies are conducted to compare missing...
- HOW ROBUST ARE SIGN AND RANK ORDER TESTS OF THE HECKSCHER-OHLIN-VANEK THEOREM?
KOHLER, WILHELM // Oxford Economic Papers; Jan1991, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p158No abstract available.
- A System of Paired Asymmetric Measures of Association for Use with Ordinal Dependent Variables.
Crittenden, Kathleen S.; Montgomery, Andrew C. // Social Forces; Jun80, Vol. 58 Issue 4, p1178ABSTRACT Many variables of concern to sociologists are ordinally measured. Evaluating causal theoretical statements involving such variables requires refined asymmetric measures of association. We develop a typology of asymmetric, proportionate reduction in error (PRE) measures for describing...
- Rank-Order Contracts for a Principal with Many Agents.
Malcomson, James M. // Review of Economic Studies; Oct86, Vol. 53 Issue 176, p807For a principal with many agents, rank-order contracts remain incentive compatible even when information about agents' performance is known only to the principal because the total payment from the principal to all agents taken together is independent of the outcome that occurs. Under wider...
- A STUDY OF HANK-ORDER METHODS OF EVALUATING PERFORMANCES IN SPEECH CONTESTS.
Knower, Franklin H. // Journal of Applied Psychology; Oct40, Vol. 24 Issue 5, p633The article reports on the study about the utilization of rank-order methods to evaluate the performances in speech contests in the U.S. Several tables were presented that list data taken from various forensic organizations sponsoring speech contests. The study shows that the variation in...
- THE EFFECT OF EXPOSURE TO AN EXTREME STIMULUS ON JUDGMENTS OF SOME STIMULUS-RELATED WORDS.
Fine, Bernard J. // Journal of Applied Psychology; Feb61, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p41The article provides information on a study that tested the hypothesis that subjects' ratings of cold-toned words would shift away from the cold end of a warm-cold ordinal scale as a consequence of exposing the subjects to extremely cold temperatures. The study's data substantiate the hypothesis...
- A COMPARISON OF THREE MEASURES OF ATTITUDE INTENSITY.
McDill, Edward L. // Social Forces; Dec59, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p95The rank ordering of respondents on attitude questions by Louis Guttman content analysis does not provide a rationale for classifying respondents as favorable or unfavorable on a particular attitude area. As a form of ordinal measurement Guttman content analysis does nothing more than tell that...
- A SCHEME FOR COMBINING INCOMPLETE RANKINGS.
Haught, B. F. // Journal of Applied Psychology; Jun23, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p168The article presents a scheme to put into average the school work for the semester to partially eliminate the teachers' judgments' wide variation. A table showing percentile scores as determined by the number in the class and the rank in that class is presented. Three correlations, namely with...
- Dissociating between cardinal and ordinal and between the value and size magnitudes of coins.
Daniel Fitousi // Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Dec2010, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p889In mathematics, the ordinal (relative) magnitude of a numerical object conveys a separate meaning from its cardinal (absolute) magnitude, whereas its physical size bears no inherent relationship to its magnitude. In numerical cognition, the ordinal�cardinal distinction has been scarcely...
