Measures of individual and group changes in ordered categorical data: Application to the ADL staircase

Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 233-242

  Sonn, Ulla ^a,c   Svensson, Elisabeth ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Goteborg Coll of Hlth Sci   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ADL; Elderly; Non parametric statistics; Ordinal data; Repeated measurements; Responsiveness

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030668937     PISSN: 00365505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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