Ranking responses in multiple-choice questions

Hsiuying Wang

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2008, vol. 35, issue 4, pages 465-474

Abstract: In many studies, the questionnaire is a common tool for surveying. There are two kinds of questions designed: single-choice questions and multiple-choice questions. For single-choice questions, the methodology for analyzing it has been provided in the literature. However, the analyses of multiple-choice questions are not established as in depth as those for single-choice questions. Recently, there has been a lot of literature published about testing the marginal independence between two questions involving at least one multiple-choice question. However, another important problem regarding this topic is to rank the responses in a multiple-choice question. The issue is whether there are significant differences in the popularity of particular responses within the same question. In this paper, methodologies for ranking responses are proposed.

Keywords: single-choice question; multiple-choice question; survey; likelihood ratio test; Wald test; ranking consistency (search for similar items in EconPapers)

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