Reliability of a discrimination measure for judgements of non-biological stiffness

Manual Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 150-156

  Nicholson, Leslie ^a   Adams, Roger ^a   Maher, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RIGIDITY; SPINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 0031214690     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/math.1997.0295     Document Type: Article

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