Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia (Dec 2014)

Application Of Rating Scale Model In Conversion Of Rating Scales' Points To The Form Of Triangular Fuzzy Numbers

  • Jefmański Bartłomiej

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/foli-2015-0010
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 2
pp. 7 – 18

Abstract

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A new application of fuzzy sets theory in social and economic research is a fuzzy measurement of respondents' opinions. In the subject literature fuzzy rating scales or fuzzy conversion scales are being applied. In this second case, a key stage is a choice of such parameters' values of fuzzy numbers which will best illustrate the perception of linguistic values constituting points of measurement scales.

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