Title :
Placing the Dissonance Measure in the Context of Generalized Information Theory
Author :
Wierman, Mark J. ; Tastle, William J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE
Abstract :
We place the measures of consensus and dissention, tools originally developed to measure consensus in Likert scale data, in the context of the various measures of information profiled in generalized information theory. We also indicate connections between the consensus and dissention and the Fisher information measure. Finally, we introduce a targeted measure of agreement
Keywords :
information theory; set theory; statistical distributions; Fisher information; Likert scale data; dissonance measure; generalized information theory; Computer science; Cramer-Rao bounds; Educational institutions; Entropy; Information theory; Possibility theory; Power measurement; Probability density function; Random variables; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2006. NAFIPS 2006. Annual meeting of the North American
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0363-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0363-4
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365417
