A new adaptive membership function with CUB uncertainty with application to cluster analysis of Likert-type data

N Biasetton, M Disegna, E Barzizza… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Likert-type scales are commonly used in both academia and industry to capture human
feelings since they are user-friendly, easy-to-develop and easy-to administer. This kind of …

Descriptive analysis of responses to items in questionnaires. Why not using a fuzzy rating scale?

MA Lubiano, SR de Sáa, M Montenegro, B Sinova… - Information …, 2016 - Elsevier
In evaluating aspects like quality perception, satisfaction or attitude which are intrinsically
imprecise, the fuzzy rating scale has been introduced as a psychometric tool that allows …

Hypothesis testing for means in connection with fuzzy rating scale-based data: algorithms and applications

MA Lubiano, M Montenegro, B Sinova… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The fuzzy rating scale was introduced as a tool to measure intrinsically ill-
defined/imprecisely-valued attributes in a free way. Thus, users do not have to choose a …

Gendered beliefs in stem undergraduates: A comparative analysis of fuzzy rating versus likert scales

AM Castaño, MA Lubiano, AL García-Izquierdo - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Women are underrepresented in growing positions such as those related to STEM field
careers (ie, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). One of the causes for …

A psychometric modeling approach to fuzzy rating data

A Calcagnì, N Cao, E Rubaltelli, L Lombardi - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Modeling fuzziness and imprecision in human rating data is a crucial problem in many
research areas, including applied statistics, behavioral, social, and health sciences …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable Innovative Design of Elderly-Friendly Smart Medical Products: An Integrated Model

AJ Shie, EM Xu, ZZ Ye, QF Meng, YJ Wu - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Under the promotion of combined medical and elderly care (CMEC) policies, the market
demand for elder-friendly smart medical products as convenient intelligent healthcare …

Fuzzy data analysis and classification: Special issue in memoriam of Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh, father of fuzzy logic

P D'Urso, MÁ Gil - Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 2017 - Springer
This issue means a contribution of a well-known rather young journal from a scientific field
that, sometimes and especially at the beginning of the introduction of fuzzy theory, put it into …

M-estimates of location for the robust central tendency of fuzzy data

B Sinova, MÁ Gil, S Van Aelst - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Aumann-type mean has been shown to possess valuable properties as a measure of
the location or central tendency of fuzzy data associated with a random experiment …

[HTML][HTML] Hypothesis testing-based comparative analysis between rating scales for intrinsically imprecise data

MA Lubiano, A Salas, C Carleos, SR de Sáa… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
In previous papers, it has been empirically proved that descriptive (summary measures) and
inferential conclusions (in particular, tests about means p-values) with imprecise-valued …

Descriptive and comparative analysis of human perceptions expressed through fuzzy rating scale-based questionnaires

P Quirós, JM Alonso, DP Pancho - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Opinion surveys are widely admitted as a valuable source of information which becomes
complementary to the information extracted from data by machine learning techniques. This …