Accuracy and precision of variance components in occupational posture recordings: A simulation study of different data collection strategies

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liv, Per ^a,b   Mathiassen, Svend Erik ^a   Svendsen, Susanne Wulff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c HERNING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINTING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOULDER; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMECHANICS; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINTINGS; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SHOULDER; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; UPPER EXTREMITY; WORK;

EID: 84862166418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-58     Document Type: Article

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