Lack of a suitable measuring device hampered the empirical study of narcissism until Raskin and Hall (1979) developed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). The NPI possesses desirable psychometric properties, and in this article I used the scale in a variety of studies. Factor analysis of the scale replicated the four-factor solution found by Emmons (1984): Leadership/Authority, Self-Ab...

Measurement forms the basis for empirical health services research including pharmaceutical practice and policy research. The measurement process is designed to record and capture the underlying construct and concept. In healthcare, critical policy and practice discussions are based on cost, quality, and access. These concepts or constructs have to be measured and analyzed using variables to ev...

This paper describes and evaluates a decision theory measurement model that can be used to classify examinees based on their item response patterns. The model has a simple framework that starts with the conditional probabilities of examinees in each category or mastery state responding correctly to each item. An overview of measurement decision theory and its key concepts are presented and illu...

The metrics suite for object-oriented design put forward by Chidamber and Kemerer [8] is partly evaluated by applying principles of measurement theory. Using the object coupling measure (CBO) as an example, it is shown that failing to establish a sound empirical relation system can lead to deficiencies of software metrics. Similarly, for the object-oriented cohesion measure (LCOM) it is pointed...

A central debate in applied macroeconomics is whether statistical tools that use minimal identifying assumptions are useful for isolating promising models within a broad class. In this paper, I compare three statistical models—a vector autoregressive moving average (VARMA) model, an unrestricted state space model, and a restricted state space model— that are all consistent with the same prototy...

The radiation field from a transmitting antenna is characterized by the complex Poynting vector E x H* in which E is the electric field and H is the magnetic field. Close to the antenna the Poynting vector is imaginary (reactive) and (E,H) decay more rapidly than 1/r, while further away it is real (radiating) and (E,H) decay as 1/r . These two types of fields dominate in different regions in sp...

The history of Measurement Theory (MT) can be divided into two periods, the Formation Period and the Mature Theory, where Suppes’ foundational work marks the transition from one to the other. The first period consists of two different yet complementary research traditions: the work of Helmholtz, Hölder and Campbell on axiomatics and morphisms on one side, and the studies by Stevens and his scho...

Representational measurement is, on the one hand, an attempt to understand the nature of empirical observations that can be usefully recoded, in some reasonably unique fashion, in terms of familiar mathematical structures. The most common of these representing structures are the ordinary real numbers ordered in the usual way and with the operations of addition, +, and/or multiplication, ·. Intu...

We propose a measurement theory for quantum fields based on measurements made with localized nonrelativistic systems that couple covariantly to (like the Unruh-DeWitt detector). Concretely, we analyze positive operator-valued measure induced field when an idealized is carried out detector after it coupled field. Using information-theoretic approach, provide relativistic analogue quantum-mechani...