Consensus and dissention: A new measure of agreement

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 385-388

  Tastle, William J ^a   Wierman, Mark J ^b  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEASUREMENTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LIKERT SCALE; ORDINAL SCALES; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33745004182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAFIPS.2005.1548566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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