Statistical Methods for the Evaluation of Educational Services and Quality of Products
| Author/creator | Monari, Paola Editor |
| Other author | Piccolo, Domenico Editor |
| Other author | Salmaso, Luigi Editor |
| Other author | Bini, Matilde Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag Secaucus : Springer [Distributor] |
| Description | xv, 243 p. ill 23.500 x 015.500 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Nature - Springer Mathematics and Statistics eBooks 2009 English International |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Books |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contributions to Statistics Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation The book presents statistical methods and models that can usefully support the evaluation of educational services and quality of products. The evaluation of educational services, as well as the analysis of judgments and preferences, poses severe methodological challenges because of the presence of the following aspects: the observational nature of the context, which is associated with the problems of selection bias and presence of nuisance factors; the hierarchical structure of the data (multilevel analysis); the multivariate and qualitative nature of the dependent variable; the presence of non observable factors, e.g. the satisfaction, calling for the use of latent variables models; the simultaneous presence of components of pleasure and components of uncertainty in the explication of the judgments, that asks for the specification and estimation of mixture models. The contributions concern methodological advances developed mostly with reference to specific problems of evaluation using real data sets. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783790823844 |
| ISBN | 3790823848 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9783790823844 |
| Stock number | 3790823848 00404193 |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |