DocumentCode
2641370
Title
Consensus and dissention: theory and properties
Author
Wierman, Mark J. ; Tastle, William J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE, USA
fYear
2005
fDate
26-28 June 2005
Firstpage
75
Lastpage
79
Abstract
The Likert scale is a popular tool for assessing peoples attitude about various questions. This papers introduces two new measures, dissension and consensus, that provide a better statistic for assessing the amount of overall agreement in a population when data is extracted from the population using a Likert scale. The measures are applicable to any discrete random variable.
Keywords
statistical analysis; Likert scale; consensus measure; discrete random variable; dissension measure; Computer science; Data mining; Entropy; Frequency conversion; Probability distribution; Random variables; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Terrorism; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2005. NAFIPS 2005. Annual Meeting of the North American
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9187-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NAFIPS.2005.1548511
Filename
1548511
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