Some techniques for the analysis of work sampling data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 607-618

  Miller, Michael E ^a   James, Margaret K ^a   Langefeld, Carl D ^b   Espeland, Mark A ^a   Freedman, Jay A ^c   Martin, Douglas K ^c,d   Smith, David M ^c,d  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c RICHARD L ROUDEBUSH VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB PERFORMANCE; SAMPLING; TECHNIQUE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 0029961168     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960330)15:6<607::AID-SIM186>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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