Assessing attitudes towards statistics among Medical students: Psychometric properties of the Serbian Version of the survey of attitudes towards statistics (SATS)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Stanisavljevic, Dejana ^a   Trajkovic, Goran ^a   Marinkovic, Jelena ^a   Bukumiric, Zoran ^a   Cirkovic, Andja ^a   Milic, Natasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SERBIAN VERSION OF SURVEY OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS STATISTICS; STATISTICS; STUDENT ATTITUDE; VALIDATION STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SERBIA; STANDARDS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SERBIA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84912003734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112567     Document Type: Review

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