Re: Paired Comparisons

[Geoff Meltzner <geoff@xxxxxxx>]

Try the following references:

Guilford, J.P.  (1954) Psychometric Methods especially Chapt.
7

Torgerson, W.S (1958) Theory and Methods of Scaling

Those should be enough to start you off.  Let me know if you
have any other questions.

-Geoff


At 02:45 PM 3/18/2003 +0000, ZL Handley wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am currently evaluating the use of speech synthesis for computer-
> assisted language learning. I want to do some percetual tests
> using the paired comparison technique. I understand the basic
> technique but have not found any information on how to analyse the
> results of such tests. I was wondering whether anyone could point
> me to an article or text book that would explain how to do
> this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Zoe Handley
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> PhD by research (subject: Evaluation of speech synthesis for computer
> assisted langauge learning)
> Centre for Computational Linguistics - MB/C25c
> UMIST PO Box 88  Manchester M60 1QD UK
> zoe.handley@postgrad.umist.ac.uk