Patent Document ID: 7848979
Application ID: 11507809
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for analyzing qualitative information associated with a characteristic of at least one entity based on associated quantitative information, comprising: obtaining first information which contains at least in part a qualitative information relating to at least one of the at least one entity; determining second information associated with at least one attribute of the characteristic obtained from the first information; obtaining third information which contains at least in part quantitative information associated with at least one of at least one entity; and using a computing device, establishing fourth information as a function of the second information and the third information to determine at least one quantitative effect of the at least one attribute on the characteristic, wherein the at least one entity includes a plurality of entities, wherein at least one of the first information, the second information, or the third information relates to the entities, wherein the fourth information is established by a performance of a statistical aggregation procedure across the plurality of entities, wherein the second information comprises a plurality of dimension-modifier pairs each having a dimension and a modifier, wherein a numerical weight is associated with each particular dimension-modifier pair for a particular modifier relative to a particular dimension, and wherein the fourth information is further established using the weights.