著者
林 英夫
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
行動計量学 (ISSN:03855481)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.37, no.2, pp.127-145, 2010 (Released:2011-01-22)
参考文献数
98
被引用文献数
2 1

The main purpose of this article is to provide a diverse range of positive evidence that refutes groundless arguments against mail surveys. A versatile set of methodological studies are employed to clarify key factors: return rate, length of time required to conduct surveys, cost requirements, answers by proxy respondents, and ability to obtain straightforward answers. Consequently, the author shows that mail surveys are recognized by most respondents as a survey method that is easy to respond to, simple to participate in, and convenient for filling out and submitting a questionnaire. Furthermore, this work introduces several successful cases of converting methodology from personal interviews or drop-off/pick-up surveys to mail surveys, as well as using these methods together. In particular, the author emphasizes the need for further discussion to clarify the definitions of technical terms, to concretely describe the survey processes used for research papers, and to eventually standardize the quality of survey results so that systematic reviews can be conducted sometime in the very near future.
著者
金 明哲
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
行動計量学 (ISSN:03855481)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, no.2, pp.89-103, 2009 (Released:2010-06-29)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
2 3

In this research, as a basis of studies regarding when certain works were written, an estimation was attempted using the works of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. In the experiment, two types of data sets were created from the text with part-of-speech tagging, and a comparative analysis was performed using three methods: Linear Regression, Support Vector Regression, and Random Forest Regression. As a result, when the works were written was estimated with rather high accuracy. The average of absolute value of estimation error and standard deviation was approximately 1.4 years. The order of high accuracy of estimation was Random Forest Regression, Support Vector Regression, and Linear Regression.
著者
宇佐美 慧
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
行動計量学 (ISSN:03855481)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.1, pp.33-50, 2011 (Released:2011-07-04)
参考文献数
50
被引用文献数
5 4

This study investigated measurement problems of essay test data from various perspectives, controlling length of essays. Two sets of essay test data (A:about early introduction of English education, and B:about differences between the sexes in nurturing) were obtained from 303 high school students. Students were divided into 2 groups:one group (N=155) took essays A and B within 400 and 800 words respectively, and vice versa for another group (N=148). 4 raters evaluated 606 (303×2) essays both holistically and analytically (11 or 12 items). From factor analysis and covariance structure analysis of analytically-evaluated data, it was statistically confirmed that 2 factor (“linguistic ability factor” and “writing ability factor”) model was valid regardless of length of essays and raters. Reliability of evaluation between raters and within raters varied depending on items, and length of essays showed different effects for different items. From the view of internal consistency, the result based on multivariate generalizability theory indicated, regardless of length of essays and evaluation methods, that increasing the number of tests is more effective than adding raters for improving internal consistency. Propensity score analysis, with analytically-evaluated scores as covariates, showed that “beauty of handwriting” and “direction of opinion” might bias holistic scores.
著者
藤井 聡 竹村 和久
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
行動計量学 (ISSN:03855481)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.28, no.1, pp.9-17, 2001 (Released:2009-04-07)
参考文献数
21
被引用文献数
11 23 4

Identical decision problems in form may yield different decisions, depending on the subjective decision framing as a function of how the situation is described. This is called the framing effect. The Contingent Focus Model (Takemura, 1994) can theoretically explain why the framing effect emerges. The model hypothesizes that a risk attitude depends on how to focus on the possible outcome (focusing hypothesis), and how to focus on them is, in turn, contingent on situations of decision making (contingent focus hypothesis). To test this hypothesis, we conducted 2 experiments which manipulated the relative size of letters of outcomes to the other letters (n=180, respectively). The results indicated that the subjects were more risk-taking when possible outcomes were emphasizing than those when probabilities were emphasizing. The psychometric analysis using the model indicated that the size of effect of emphasizing conditions on decision making is not different from that of positive/negative frame conditions.
著者
鈴木 督久
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
行動計量学 (ISSN:03855481)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.2, pp.174-181, 2002 (Released:2009-04-07)
参考文献数
14
被引用文献数
4 1 6

The purpose of this paper is to show a method of describing a corporate image fluctuation using factor scores derived from simultaneous analysis in multiple populations with structured means. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model was applied to the independent, random samples collected in survey research conducted once a year since 1988. As a result, a multiple population CFA model, which constrained the model form, the values of factor loadings and the variances-covariance matrix of exogenous variables to be the same in all groups (1988-1997), fitted to the data well.In traditional exploratory factor analysis (EFA) models, it has been difficult to compare factor scores in different years owing to the lack of a fixed factor pattern across groups. However, structural equation modeling (SEM) settled this problem.
著者
大隅 昇
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
行動計量学 (ISSN:03855481)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.1, pp.20-44, 2002-03-29
被引用文献数
6 8

Rapid development in the survey methods available on the World Wide Web (WWW) is having a major impact on conventional survey data collection methods. The wide range of opinions has given rise to an ongoing debate regarding the future role of Internet surveys (in particular, Web surveys) based on the role that self-administration will play in research. We started by arranging a practical procedure for electronic data collection on the Web surveys experimentally designed from the viewpoint of "data science." Aiming to verify the applicability, possibilities, and limitations of Web survey methods, we conducted three experimental surveys during the period from 1997 to 2000. They were designed to enable comparison with each other and with traditional methods such as face-to-face interviews and online surveys using conventional sampling procedures. These surveys provided informative results about the characteristics of Web surveys. In the first survey, consisting of 12 continual surveys of a single panel of registrants, we examined the relationship between the response rates and the questionnaire's design, volume and content, as well as response rate differences among the 12 surveys and the discrepancies in repeated surveys. In the second experimental survey, we carried out Web surveys at about the same time on three different sites together with non-internet surveys using conventional sampling methods. Our experimental design enabled objective comparison of the surveys by using as much identical questionnaire design as possible. Our experimental surveys showed that Web survey results are similar to each other while distinctively differing from those of conventional surveys. In the third experimental survey, we simultaneously carried out a series of comparative surveys in order to examine the general characteristics of Web surveys found during the second experimental survey. Except that the number of sites used was two instead of three, the third experimental surveys were carried out in the same way as in the second trial. We confirmed the results that the same characteristics were evident again in the second survey. We also found that how the registrants of the surveys (named "resources") were selected and whether the interval between solicitation and survey was short or long would be factors influencing the answers and response-rate. We also found that the respondents do not necessarily represent the resources. In addition, as an addendum in this paper, we report partly the results of a fourth experimental survey which has been carried out in 2001 to 2002 and compare it with the findings of the previous three trials. In particular, we also analyze the itemized causes of "nonresponse" on the datasets obtained from the tracking procedure of tracing electronically each respondent on the WWW. The fourth survey consists of Web surveys on three separate sites while the other surveys were based on conventional sampling methods (e.g., face-to-face interviews and mail surveys). While we use the same questionnaire design, content, and duration as those used in the past surveys, we also attempt to examine how the questionnaire design has influenced responses. Through these experimental surveys, an appropriate route to how to design a Web survey, evaluate its quality and avoid possible risks or perils in design is proposed from the concept of "data science."
著者
Hickendorff Marian Heiser Willem J. van Putten Cornelis M. Verhelst Norman D.
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.35, no.1, pp.35-54, 2008-01

The problem considered in the present paper is how to cluster data of nominal measurement level, where the categories of the variables are equivalent(the variables are replications of each other). One suitable technique to obtain such a clustering is latent class analysis(LCA) with equality restrictions on the conditional probabilities. As an alternative, a less well known technique is introduced: GROUPALS. This is an algorithm for the simultaneous scaling(by multiple correspondence analysis) and clustering of categorical variables. Equality restrictions on the category quantifications were incorporated in the algorithm, to account for equivalent categories. In two simulation studies, the clustering performance was assessed by measuring the recovery of true cluster membership of the individuals. The effect of several systematically varied data features was studied. Restricted LCA obtained good to excellent cluster recovery results. Restricted GROUPALS approximated this optimal performance reasonably well, except when underlying classes were very different in size.
著者
庄司 裕子
出版者
日本行動計量学会
雑誌
日本行動計量学会大会発表論文抄録集
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, pp.202-205, 2005-08-24

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