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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455341003321

Autore

Cliff Norman <1930->

Titolo

Ordinal measurement in the behavioral sciences [[electronic resource] /] / Norman Cliff, John A. Keats

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

ISBN

1-282-37435-4

9786612374357

1-4106-0680-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KeatsJ. A (John Augustus)

Disciplina

150/.28/7

Soggetti

Psychology - Mathematical models

Social sciences - Statistical methods

Analysis of variance

Psychological tests - Statistical methods

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-217) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Purpose of Psychological Assessment; Chapter 2: What Makes a Variable a Scale?; Chapter 3: Types of Assessment; Chapter 4: Item Scores and Their Addition to Obtain Total Test Scores in the Case of Dichotomous Items; Chapter 5: Item Scores and Their Addition to Obtain Total Test Scores in the Case of Polytomous Items; Chapter 6: Dominance Analysis of Tests; Chapter 7: Approaches to Ordering Things and Stimuli; Chapter 8: Alternatives to Complete Paired Comparisons; Chapter 9: The Unfolding Model

Chapter 10: The Application of Ordinal Test Theory to Items in Tests Used in Cross-Cultural ComparisonsAppendix A: FLOW CHART FOR A PROGRAM TO CARRY OUT A COMPLETE ITEM ANALYSIS OF ITEMS IN A TEST OR SCALE USING A SMALL PERSONAL COMPUTER; Appendix B: STATISTICAL TABLES; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies. It is based on the assumptions of ordinal statistics as



explained in Norman Cliff's 1996 Ordinal Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis. It provides the necessary background on ordinal measurement to permit its use to assess psychological and psychophysical tests and scales and interpret the data obtained. The authors believe that some of the behavioral measurement models used today do not fit the data or are inherently self-contradictory. App

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480969603321

Autore

Popescu Gelu <1958->

Titolo

Entropy and multivariable interpolation / / Gelu Popescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-4704-0472-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 868

Disciplina

511/.42

Soggetti

Interpolation

Linear operators

Maximum entropy method

Operator theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume 184, number 868 (end of volume)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-83).

Nota di contenuto

""2.2. Central lifting in several variables and geometric characterizations""""2.3. A maximum principle for the noncommutative commutant lifting theorem""; ""2.4. A permanence principle for the central intertwining lifting""; ""2.5. Quasi outer spectral factorizations""; ""2.6. Noncommutative commutant lifting theorem and the maximal entropy solution""; ""Chapter 3. Maximal Entropy Interpolation Problems in Several Variables""; ""3.1. Maximal entropy solution for the Sarason interpolation problem for analytic Toeplitz algebras""

""3.2. Maximal entropy solution for the Caratheodory-Schur interpolation problem for analytic Toeplitz algebras""""3.3. Maximal



entropy solution for the Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problem with operatorial argument in several variables""; ""3.4. Maximal entropy interpolation on the unit ball of C[sup(n)]""; ""Bibliography""