This study measured the technical efficiency of cassava farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select 120 respondents for study. Primary data were collected from randomly selected through a well-structured and self-administered questionnaire. The results indicated that more than half (52.5%) older 50 years age had household sizes within range 6-10 pers...

Performance in paid work has for many years been studied as an important form of individual and group behavior, with researchers practitioners often aiming its enhancement through job design, staff selection development, or shaping managerial style organizational culture. In parallel this interest performance, psychologists employment settings have also worked to understand the sources conseque...

Treating Likert scale data as continuous outcomes in confirmatory factor analysis violates the assumption of multivariate normality. Given certain requirements pertaining to the number of categories, skewness, size of the factor loadings, etc., it seems nevertheless possible to recover true parameter values if the data stem from a single homogenous population. It is shown in a multi-group and a...

William J. Tastle and et al. (Proc ISECON 2005, V22 (Columbus OH)) presented a new consensus measure for ranking sets of Likert scale data (ordinal data). In this paper we extend the consensus measure to the fuzzy sets. This measure called the strength of consensus is a modification of both the Shannon entropy, an equation common to the foundation of information theory, and the standard consens...

PURPOSE To estimate the just-noticeable difference (JND) in ocular comfort rating by human, contact lens-wearing subjects using 1 to 100 numerical scales. METHODS Ostensibly identical, new contact lenses were worn simultaneously in both eyes by 40 subjects who made individual comfort ratings for each eye using a 100-point numerical ratings scale (NRS). Concurrently, interocular preference was...