Cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer patients: factor mixture models with continuous non-normal distributions

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2909-2916

  Ho, Rainbow T H ^a   Fong, Ted C T ^a   Cheung, Irene K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Brief Fatigue Inventory; Mixture modeling; Non normal distribution; Population heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PAIN; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDERS;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PAIN; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84930807704     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-014-0731-7     Document Type: Article

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