Hip psychometrics

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2277-2292

  Baldwin, Peter ^a   Bernstein, Joseph ^b   Wainer, Howard ^a  

^a NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Garden's classifications; Hip fractures; Item response theory; Small sample

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BIOSTATISTICS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORTHOPEDICS; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 69949091332     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3616     Document Type: Article

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