Can we weight satisfaction score with importance ranks across life domains?

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 469-480

  Wu, Chia Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hierarchical linear modeling; Importance; Quality of life; Satisfaction; Weighting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 41549143223     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9180-9     Document Type: Article

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