An analytic strategy for modeling multiple-item responses: A breast cancer symptom example

Nursing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 229-234

  Doorenbos, Ardith Z ^a,c   Verbitsky, Natalya ^b   Given, Barbara ^a   Given, Charles W ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer symptoms; Hierarchical linear model; Item Response Theory; Women with breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COUGHING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COUGH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 23244460882     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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