Bar charts enhance Bland-Altman plots when value ranges are limited

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 180-184

  Smith, Mark W ^a,b   Ma, Jun ^c   Stafford, Randall S ^b  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometry; Health services utilization; Humans; Reproducibility of results; Statistics, nonparametric; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLAND ALTMAN PLOT; CASE MANAGEMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 72749119681     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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