Psychological tests in measurement theory

zbMATH Open1195.62172arXiv1404.2664MaRDI QIDQ4929883FDOQ4929883

Authors: Kohshi Kikuchi, Shiro Ishikawa 

Publication date: 24 September 2010

Abstract: Recently, we proposed measurement theory ( or. quantum language) as a linguistic turn of quantum mechanics (with the Copenhagen interpretation). This theory has a great power of scientific descriptions. In fact, we have continued asserting that even statistics can be described in terms of measurement theory. Thus, we believe that quantum language is future statistics (i.e., statistics will develop into quantum language). However, now we think that our arguments were too abstract and philosophical, that is, we should have presented concrete examples much more. Thus, in this paper, we show that the calculation of Kalman filter is more understandable in terms of quantum language than in terms of usual statistics. For this, we devote ourselves to statistical measurement theory, in which the Bertrand paradox is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2664

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zbMATH Keywords

Occam's razormeasurement theoryBell's inequalitypsychological testsplit-half methodquantitative language

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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• Assessment structures in psychological testing
• Extensions of reliability theory
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