Thinking about measures and measurement

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Burton Jones, Andrew ^a   Lee, Allen S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CUMULATIVE IMPACTS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; SCIENTIFIC REASONING;

FORMAL LOGIC; MEASUREMENTS; RESEARCH; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EID: 79952949735     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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