Reliability of a standardized reading chart system: Variance component analysis, test-retest and inter-chart reliability

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-39

  Stifter, Eva ^a   König, Franz ^a   Lang, Thomas ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a   Richter Müksch, Sibylla ^a   Velikay Parel, Michaela ^a   Radner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATIN SQUARE DESIGN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; OPTICS; PERFORMANCE; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADNER READING CHARTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOLUNTEER;

AGED; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 10744220488     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0776-8     Document Type: Article

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