Consensus and dissention: a measure of ordinal dispersion

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2006.06.024zbMath1310.91057OpenAlexW2090767892MaRDI QIDQ2382781

Mark J. Wierman, William J. Tastle

Publication date: 4 October 2007

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2006.06.024

zbMATH Keywords

dispersionordinal scaleconsensus measureLikert scaledissention measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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