Similary as in (30) an adherence measure-based on disparity (in sense of a length compare) is provided by absolute scale, a ratio scale with (absolute) prefixed unit size, for example, inhabitants. Remark 2. S. Mller and C. Supatgiat, A quantitative optimization model for dynamic risk-based compliance management, IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. In this paper some aspects are discussed how data of qualitative category type, often gathered via questionnaires and surveys, can be transformed into appropriate numerical values to enable the full spectrum of quantitative mathematical-statistical analysis methodology. Correlation tests check whether variables are related without hypothesizing a cause-and-effect relationship. This rough set-based representation of belief function operators led then to a nonquantitative interpretation. Such a scheme is described by the linear aggregation modelling of the form Methods in Development Research Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, 2005, Statistical Services Centre, University of Reading, http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/workareas/participation/Quantitative_analysis_approaches_to_qualitative_data.pdf. Statistical treatment of data is when you apply some form of statistical method to a data set to transform it from a group of meaningless numbers into meaningful output. Fortunately, with a few simple convenient statistical tools most of the information needed in regular laboratory work can be obtained: the " t -test, the " F -test", and regression analysis. This appears to be required because the multiple modelling influencing parameters are not resulting in an analytically usable closed formula to calculate an optimal aggregation model solution. Remark 4. Data collection in qualitative research | Evidence-Based Nursing So on significance level the independency assumption has to be rejected if (; ()()) for the () quantile of the -distribution. B. Simonetti, An approach for the quantification of qualitative sen-sory variables using orthogonal polynomials, Caribbean Journal of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, vol. The orientation of the vectors in the underlying vector space, that is, simply spoken if a vector is on the left or right side of the other, does not matter in sense of adherence measurement and is finally evaluated by an examination analysis of the single components characteristics. The situation and the case study-based on the following: projects () are requested to answer to an ordinal scaled survey about alignment and adherence to a specified procedural-based process framework in a self-assessment. Steven's Power Law where depends on the number of units and is a measure of the rate of growth of perceived intensity as a function of stimulus intensity. the groups that are being compared have similar. They can be used to test the effect of a categorical variable on the mean value of some other characteristic. Thus for we get While ranks just provide an ordering relative to the other items under consideration only, scores are enabling a more precise idea of distance and can have an independent meaning. M. A. Kopotek and S. T. Wierzchon, Qualitative versus quantitative interpretation of the mathematical theory of evidence, in Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS '97), Z. W. Ras and A. Skowron, Eds., vol.