We provide a contingent valuation of a major cycling event, viz. the Tour of Flanders. Starting from survey data, we use a Bayesian method to derive the distribution of Flemish individuals’ willingness to pay for the event. We relate the individual figures to explanatory factors and find that...

Studies of product positioning often use perceptual mapping techniques to study the cognitive dimensions that lie at the basis of product perception. As the metric assumptions at the basis of dimensional geometric presentations may be doubtful, perceptual analysis models based on qualitative...

National pride in 22 countries, reported in probability surveys of the International Social Survey Programme of 1995 on national identity is shown to be based on four sources of national pride: internal care (IC), nowadays and past achievements (NA and PA), and external power (EP). The...

Differential item functioning (DIF) occurs when persons with equal ability who belong to different groups have a different probability to correctly solve an item of a certain test. As the occurrence of DIF is considered a serious problem when using tests for personnel selection, many procedures...

A common strategy for the analysis of object-attribute associations is to derive a low-dimensional spatial representation of objects and attributes which involves a compensatory model (e.g., principal components analysis) to explain the strength of object-attribute associations. As an...

Probabilistic feature models (PFMs) can be used to explain binary rater judgements about the associations between two types of elements (e.g., objects and attributes) on the basis of binary latent features. In particular, to explain observed object-attribute associations PFMs assume that...