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Development of an instrument for the dynamic measurement of consensus

Bonnie Spillman Assistant professor of communication, Utah State University,
,
James Bezdek Assistant professor of mathematics, Utah State University,
&
Richard Spillman Graduate student in electrical engineering, Utah State University,
Pages 1-12 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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  • Spillman , Richard J. and Spillman , Bonnie M. 1976 . “The Dynamic Structure of Small Group Behavior: Methods of Analyzing Change Over Time in Markov Models,” . paper presented at the Western Speech Communication Association convention . November 1976 , San Francisco.
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  • Bezdek , James , Spillman , Bonnie M. and Spillman , Richard J. “Fuzzy Measures of Uncertainty and Consensus for Group Decision Making,” . Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control . forthcoming

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