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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Paired Comparison"”.
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Some aspects of paired-comparison experiments
I. A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Tournaments. A paired-comparison experiment involving t treatments is analogous to a tournament with t players. A balanced experiment, in which every possible pair occurs once per replication, is the counterpart of a round robin tournament. When the objective …
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Analysis of Paired Comparison Data Using Monte Carlo EM Algorithms
… nature and the difference structure of the paired comparison data. In this thesis, the identifiability of model parameters are investigated by studying empirically equivalent Thurstonian models. Equivalence relations and their implications on interpretation are presented in detail for a …
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A comparison of two scaling procedures in paired-comparison experiments involving ties
… of the Thurstone-Mosteller method of paired comparisons makes possible the analysis of data involving tied observations. The modification includes the postulating of an angular response law such that the response proportions are scaled with arc sine transforms instead of with normal …
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The measurement of emotional health through the use of Estavan's modified paired comparison technique
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1966
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A páros összehasonlításokon alapuló rangsorolás módszertani és alkalmazási kérdései = Methodological and applicational issues of paired comparison based ranking
… alkalmazásban az utóbbira is kitérünk. ____ Paired comparison based ranking problems are given by a tournament matrix representing the performance of some objects against each other. They arise in many different fields like social choice theory (Chebotarev and Shamis, 1998), sports (Landau, …
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A New IRT Approach to Test Construction and Scoring Designed to Reduce the Effects of Faking in Personality Assessment: The Generalized Graded Unfolding Model for Multi -Unidimensional Paired Comparison Responses
… items and tests that are fake-resistant. Paired comparison responses to personality items, consisting of pairs of statements on different dimensions, which are similar in social desirability, are scored using a new multi-unidimensional item response theory model, called the GGUM-MU. …
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Two-group comparisons in the rank analysis of incomplete block designs
… this work was to investigate certain two-group comparisons within a paired comparison experimental design.
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Revealing Socially Undesirable Information: A Comparison of Bipolar Adjective Scaling Methods
… examined two bipolar adjective scaling methods (paired-comparison and semantic differential) to determine scaling effects on test taker reports of socially undesirable information on a self-report personality measure of conscientiousness. Results indicate that no differences exist in socially …
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Team Cognition in Group Interventions: The Relation Between Co-Leaders' Shared Mental Models of the Group and Group Climate
… of eight inter-group dialogue groups provided paired comparison ratings of the similarity of group members, and group members provided group climate ratings, following each of seven sessions. Paired comparison ratings were analyzed using Pathfinder Network Analysis (Schvaneveldt, 1990) to …
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Aspects of cognition in human mate selection
… in mate preference using a more sophisticated paired comparison methodology to develop scales. Paired comparison scaling generally replicated gender differences in mate preferences consistent with evolutionary predictions. Further, decision-making reaction time (ms) suggested the presence of an …
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Looking and Listening Patterns in 4- and 8- Month-Old Infants: Correspondence between Measures of Attention
… studied using visual habituation and paired-comparison techniques. There has been extensive work within the field of infant attention that has focused on the development of visual attention. Within this field, it has been well established that there are two distinct classifications of …
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Tests of significance for experiments involving paired comparisons
New methods for testing hypotheses in paired-comparison experiments are presented in this dissertation. The methods are developed on the basis of a very general mathematical model and they are, in general, quite easy to employ. Two tests of the null hypothesis that all treatments have equal …
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Modulation transfer function measurements, image quality metrics, and subjective image quality for soft-copy color images
… and 8 Eastman Kodak employees, participated in a paired comparison method in which 21 stimuli for each of the four scenes were evaluated for their perceived image quality. Horizontal and vertical modulation transfer functions were acquired by photometric scans of a cross-hair one-pixel wide white …
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A study of expressed barriers, and their comparative strengths, to conducting a health ministry in selected seventh-day Adventist churches in Idaho, Oregon and Texas
… in local Seventh-day Adventist churches. A paired comparison instrument, filled out by 217 church members in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Texas, provided the rank order of the barriers. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in the selected barriers between the …
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Temperament Differences in Fear Reactivity in Infancy: Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Recognition Memory
… greater novelty preference during the visual paired comparison task. Reactively fearful infants also demonstrated greater left frontal activation during familiarization and recognition memory indicative of better feature discrimination.
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An Investigation of English Structure Rules in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… were presented in three test formats: a paired-comparison task, an isolated rating task, and a multiple-choice task. Contrastive analysis was used to hypothesize a sequence of acquisition for three pairs from among the selected errors. Eight three-way analyses of variance were performed …
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Typographic emphasis of headings: Methods of typographic emphasis to assist with search of unfamiliar and familiar text
… which heading emphasis methods were used in the paired comparison studies to test for ease of identification. Three paired comparison studies were then undertaken to establish which methods of typographic emphasis are most easily identified within a passage of text. These studies compared seven …
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Regression Models for Paired Comparisons
"Paired comparisons are among the most widely used experimental methods in psychology and related fields. First employed in the middle of the 19th Century, many models have been developed over the years to analyze data from such experiments, for instance the Thurstone and Bradley-Terry-Luce models. …
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Guidelines for the evaluation of building systems in the United Arab Emirates
… Alpha - Beta Model (Grant, D.), the Method of Paired Comparison, and the Churchmann Ackoff Method for Weighting Objectives, as a formal means to evaluate and define the most appropriate industrialization approach. The third chapter applies these methods to the U.A.E's context, by evaluating the …
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