Inter-rater reliability of nursing home surveys: A Bayesian latent class approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 325-344

  Gajewski, Byron J ^a   Thompson, Sarah ^b   Dunton, Nancy ^b   Becker, Annette ^b   Wrona, Marcia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Informative prior; Kappa; MCMC; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONSUMER; DATA ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; NURSING HOME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 31344478747     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2224     Document Type: Article

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