This paper discusses a general framework for the analysis of rating and preference data that
is rooted on a class of mixtures of discrete random variables. These models have been …

Over the past two decades, behavioral research in privacy has made considerable progress
transitioning from acontextual studies to using contextualization as a powerful sensitizing …

Existing literature suggests that despite rising inequality in China, Chinese people tend to
tolerate inequality, so it would be unlikely that rising inequality would cause sociopolitical …

Debates about Islamophobia have been blighted by the question of whether the prejudice
can be defined as a form of racism or as hostility to religion (or a combination of the two) …

Addressing digital exclusion first requires an in-depth understanding of the factors leading to
it. In this paper, we explore to what extent new digital mobility solutions can be considered …

Subjective perceptions and attitudes are usually measured by administering questionnaires
with ordered response scales. Among them, a particular case are semantic differential …

Surveys are the traditional means of measuring individuals' opinions and perceptions
through the expression of ratings on ordinal scales. CUB models, introduced by Piccolo in …

This contribution deals with effect measures for covariates in ordinal data models to address
the interpretation of the results on the extreme categories of the scales, evaluate possible …

The findings from public surveys conducted in Abu Dhabi since 2015 have consistently
found individuals' perceptions of 'feelings of safety'scored over 90%. This study investigates …

Ordinal responses often arise from surveys which require respondents to rate items on a
Likert scale. Since most surveys contain more than one question, the data collected are …