Interexaminer reproducibility of ordinal and interval-scaled plaque indices

Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 630-635

  Dombret, B ^a   Matthijs, S ^a   Moradi Sabzevar, M ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dental plaque; Inter examiner reproducibility; Plaque indices

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANINE TOOTH; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISOR; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOLAR TOOTH; MOUTH HYGIENE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREMOLAR TOOTH; RANK SUM TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TONGUE; TOOTH; TOOTH PLAQUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0141785324     PISSN: 03036979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-051X.2003.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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