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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2005. NAFIPS 2005. Annual Meeting of the North American
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9187-X
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2005.1548511
