measurement theory

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meaningsofmeasurementandtheory

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measurement
noun
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/ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ.mənt/
the act or process ...
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theory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈθɪə.ri/us
/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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So the richness of motion is not an obstacle to the application ofmeasurementtheory.
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In sum, neither the notion of relational structure nor the notion of homomorphism, as used inmeasurementtheory, do formal justice to the studies of physical and perceived motion.
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Motion phenomena are inadequately captured by the relational structures and the notion of isomorphism taken over frommeasurementtheory.
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Todorovic criticizes ourmeasurementtheoryapproach to understanding internalization.
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Expert committees of clinicians have chosen diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders with little guidance frommeasurementtheoryor modern psychometric methods.
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The focus of most courses is on test development, psychometric qualities of tests, validity, reliability and fairness of tests, and classical true scoremeasurementtheory.
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Another part of the field is concerned with statistical research bearing onmeasurementtheory(e.g., item response theory; intraclass correlation).
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His interests grew to include psychophysics,measurementtheory, and probabilistic models of ordering and algebraic measurement.
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This assumption is not time-symmetric, which he tried to justify by appealing tomeasurementtheoryand the second law of thermodynamics.
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Basic topics in mathematical psychology includemeasurementtheoryand mathematical learning theory as well as the modeling and analysis of mental and motor processes.
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The book examines three major models within psychometrics; classical test theory/true scores, latent variables/item response theory and representationalmeasurementtheory.
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Open quantum systems are an important concept in quantum optics, quantummeasurementtheory, quantum statistical mechanics, quantum information science, quantum cosmology and semiclassical approximations.
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He has had a number of research interests, including quantification of cognitive processes, scaling andmeasurementtheory, computer-interactive psychological measurement, multivariate statistics, and ordinal methods.
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Wille's research interests include algebra, order and lattice theory, foundations of geometry, discrete mathematics,measurementtheory, mathematics in music, philosophy of science, conceptual knowledge engineering and contextual logic.
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