Fuzzy random vectors with stepwise membership levels and their application to questionnaire survey

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Egawa, Yoshinori ^a   Fukuda, Tokuo ^a  

^a OTEMON GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy random data; Fuzzy random vectors with stepwise membership levels; Questionnaire survey; Variance by Fr chet approach; Variance by multivalued logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649143519     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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