To transform or not transform skewed data for psychometric analysis: That is the question!

Nursing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-71

  Norris, Anne E ^a   Aroian, Karen J ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cronbach alpha; Data transformation; Pearson product moment correlation; Skew

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; USSR; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COST; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; USSR;

EID: 1342286571     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-200401000-00011     Document Type: Review

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