Since the pioneering work by Daniel McFadden in the 1970s and 1980s (McFadden, 1973, 1981, 1982, 1984) discrete (multinomial) response models based on utility maximization have become an important tool of empirical researchers. A key feature of these models is the specification of utilities associated with the alternatives in terms of choice characteristics and individual preferences. Various g...

We study the relationships between weakened forms of the Kinna-Wagner Selection Principle (KW), the Axiom of Choice (AC), and the Axiom of Multiple Choice (MC). Introduction. In this paper we study the relationships between weakened forms of the Kinna-Wagner Selection Principle (KW), the Axiom of Choice (AC), and the Axiom of Multiple Choice (MC). The forms of these statements that we shall use...

Contrary to common belief, reliability estimates of number-right multiple-choice tests are not inflated by speededness. Because examinees guess on questions when they run out of time, the responses to these questions show less consistency with the responses of other questions, and the reliability of the test will be decreased. The surprising implication is that adding questions to a multiple-ch...

the key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. in increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. however, health care users refer to a wide ...

The present study seeks to investigate the potentiality of the translation task as a testing method for measuring reading comprehension. To achieve this objective, two types of translation tests, open-ended and multiple-choice tests, and two types of reading comprehension tests, multiple-choice reading comprehension and open-ended cloze tests were developed in this study. The reliability of the...