Each point on the scale represents a gradation of agreement or sentiment, allowing researchers to transform subjective responses into quantifiable data for statistical analysis and interpretation.Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteEncyclopediaShih-Wei Yang...
A weighted geometric mean method (WGMM) was adopted to cluster the judgments as in the following equation: ∏𝑁𝑘=1(𝑎𝑘)𝛽𝑘,∏k=1N(ak)βk, (1) which can be re-formulated by applying a constant weight equal to 1/Nas ...