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Ramsing, Kenneth D.; Wish, John R. – Information Processing and Management, 1982
Discusses trade-off analysis, a data collection method with conjoint measurement technique in which respondents rank order a matrix of pairs of levels of specific attributes, and gives examples for use in determining library users' perceptions of relative utility of completeness of information versus cost of a search. Twelve sources are cited.…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Graphs, Information Retrieval