Making sense of symptom checklists: A latent class approach to the first 9 years of the British Household Panel Survey

Journal of Public Health Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-222

  Sacker, Amanda ^a   Wiggins, Richard D ^a   Clarke, Paul ^a   Bartley, Mel ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Latent class analysis; Self reported health; Symptom checklists

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0141894800     PISSN: 09574832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdg056     Document Type: Review

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