Quantifying fuzziness due to the scale of measurement in response systems

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 317-333

  Das, Shubhabrata ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy statistics and data analysis; Psychometry and measurement

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

RESPONSE SYSTEMS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0037121510     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0114(01)00244-5     Document Type: Article

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