Publisher Summary This chapter begins with the history of the Rasch models (RM) and also
discusses some basic concepts and properties of the RM. According to Georg Rasch, the …

This chapter develops three topics.(1) Identification of the distributions of treatment effects
and the distributions of agent subjective evaluations of treatment effects. Methods for …

This article provides a Bayes factor approach to multiway analysis of variance (ANOVA) that
allows researchers to state graded evidence for effects or invariances as determined by the …

This book contains information about methods for measuring subjective somatic symptoms.
The main focus is on the presentation of 2 scaling methods: the Borg RPE scale and the …

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We
examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life …

This important study shows that an understanding of product differentiation is crucial to
understanding how modern market economies function and that differentiated markets can …

Abstract The Faces Pain Scale (FPS; Bieri et al., Pain 41 (1990) 139) is a self-report
measure used to assess the intensity of children's pain. Three studies were carried out to …

Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity, provides a comprehensive and accessible
textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical …

Abstract The Grammar of Graphics, or GOG, denotes a system with seven orthogonal
components. By orthogonal, we mean there are seven graphical component sets whose …

Preference can be inferred from direct choice between options or from a matching procedure
in which the decision maker adjusts one option to match another. Studies of preferences …