Predicting gender differences as latent variables: Summed scores, and individual item responses: A methods case study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Pietrobon, Ricardo ^a   Taylor, Marcus ^a   Guller, Ulrich ^b   Higgins, Laurence D ^a   Jacobs, Danny O ^a   Carey, Timothy ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability evaluation; Gender; Low back pain; Outcome assessment; Psychometrics; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABILITY; FORECASTING; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BACK PAIN; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEX FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 16344366514     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-59     Document Type: Review

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