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OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Edited by S.M. Pollock, M.H. Rothkopf and A. Barnett

CHAPTER 18
Limitations on Conclusions Using Scales of Measurement
E.S. Roberts

1. Introduction*

2. Background: The theory of measurement

3. Some simple examples of meaningful and meaningless statements

4. Descriptive statistics

5. The possible merging functions

6. Merging relative scores

7. Meaningfulness of statistical tests

8. Structure models

9. Optimization

10. Clustering and blockmodelling

11. Judgements of preference and indifference

12. Psychophysics and the measurement of loudness

13. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

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