Browsing by Subject "Beta distribution"
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Conversion of verbal response scales: robustness across demographic categories
(Springer, 2016)Happiness and life satisfaction have traditionally been measured using verbal response scales, however, these verbal scales have not kept up with the present trend to use numerical response scales. A switch from a verbal ... -
Pooling time series based on slightly different questions about the same topic forty years of survey research on happiness and life satisfaction in the Netherlands
(Springer, 2016)Survey research on subjective wellbeing in The Netherlands started in the early 1970s. The time series happiness and life satisfaction that have emerged since then are unfortunately based on slightly different survey items ... -
Stability of boundaries between response options of response scales: does ‘very happy’ remain equally happy over the years?
(Springer, 2015)The differences between response scales in number and wording of response options make it hard to compare data from survey research and to perform research syntheses. A recent method that we have developed to tackle this ...
