An approach to derive economic weights in breeding objectives using partial profile choice experiments

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An Approach to Derive User Preferences from Multiple-Choice Questions in Online Reviews

Digital trace data from social media provide large amounts of information on individuals, their behavior, and their interactions with each other. Social media data have been employed to study personality, social networks, and other phenomena. However, employing social media data for research causes some issues: for example, data have to be transformed to fit analytical methods, and data may hav...

A preference-based approach to deriving breeding objectives: applied to sheep breeding.

Using internet-based software known as 1000Minds, choice-experiment surveys were administered to experts and farmers from the Irish sheep industry to capture their preferences with respect to the relative importance - represented by part-worth utilities - of target traits in the definition of a breeding objective for sheep in Ireland. Sheep production in Ireland can be broadly separated into lo...

Partial Knowledge in Multiple-Choice Testing

The intent of this study was to discover the nature of (partial) knowledge as estimated by the multiple-choice (MC) test method. An MC test of vocabulary, including 20 items, was given to 10 participants. Each examinee was required to think aloud while focusing on each item before and while making a response. After each test taker was done with each item, s/he was ...

A Multiplicative Approach to Derive Weights in the Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process

This paper proposes a multiplicative approach to solve defective issues in lexicographic goal programming of the analytic hierarchy process (LGPAHP). Although the LGPAHP can handle inconsistent interval comparison matrices, it generates different weights in the upper and lower triangular interval judgments. Instead of adopting additive constraints, the proposed method uses multiplicative constr...