An information theoretic measure for the evaluation of ordinal scale data

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 487-494

  Tastle, W J ^a   Wierman, M J ^b  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; EVALUATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CONSENSUS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; INFORMATION THEORY; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 33947496575     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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