Establishing equivalence between scaled measures of quality of life

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 20-26

  Gonin, R ^a   Lloyd, S ^b   Cella, D ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Bio equivalence; Bootstrap standard errors; Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy; Functional Living Index Cancer; Orthogonal least squares; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0029962313     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00435965     Document Type: Article

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