Assigning membership in a fuzzy set analysis

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 462-496

  Verkuilen, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct subjective assignment; Fuzzy set analysis; Indirect subjective assignment; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144372378     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124105274498     Document Type: Article

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