Metadata-driven Delphi rating on the internet

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-56

  Deshpande, Aniruddha M ^a   Shiffman, Richard N ^a   Nadkarni, Prakash M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delphi technique; Entity attribute value databases; Internet; Interpercentile range adjusted for symmetry; RAND UCLA Appropriateness Method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERNET; REUSABILITY;

DELPHI RATING; INTERQUARTILE RANGE (IQR); REUSABLE SOFTWARE;

METADATA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; INTERNET; STANDARDIZATION;

DELPHI TECHNIQUE; GUIDELINES; INTERNET; SOFTWARE;

EID: 11344291117     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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