Statistical methods for the evaluation of educational services and quality of products

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Bini Matilde.
Published: Physica-Verlag,
Publisher Address: Heidelberg New York
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Contributions to statistics
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Carrier Form: xv, 243 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9783790823844 (hbk.)
3790823848 (hbk.)
9783790823851 (e-ISBN)
3790823856 (e-ISBN)
Index Number: G40
CLC: G40-058.1
Call Number: G40-058.1/S797
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-240) and index.
Latent variable models for ordinal data -- Issues on item response theory modelling -- Nonlinearity in the analysis of longitudinal data -- Multilevel models for the evaluation of educational institutions : a review -- Multilevel mixture factor models for the evaluation of educational programs' effectiveness -- A class of statistical models for evaluating services and performances -- Choices and conjoint analysis : critical aspects and recent developments -- Robust diagnostics in university performance studies -- A novel global performance score with an application to the evaluation of new detergents -- Non parametric tests for the randomized complete block design with ordered categorical variables -- A permutation test for umbrella alternatives -- Nonparametric methods for measuring concordance between rankings : a case study on the evaluation of professional profiles of municipal directors.