Furthering development of a unified emergency scale using Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment: A progress report

Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 411-418

  Plotnick, Linda ^a   Gomez, Elizabeth Avery ^a   White, Connie ^a   Turoff, Murray ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency management; Paired comparisons; Public safety scales; Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment

Indexed keywords

RISK MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING;

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EVENT-SPECIFIC; INFORMATION SOURCES; LOCAL COMMUNITY; PAIRED COMPARISON; PROGRESS REPORT; PUBLIC SAFETY; THURSTONE'S LAW OF COMPARATIVE JUDGMENT;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84905668567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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