Measuring agreement in ordered rating scales

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 325-341

  Van Der Eijk, Cees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Descriptive statistics; Measures of concentration; Measures of dispersion; Survey research

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035413495     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010374114305     Document Type: Article

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