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Bringing External Validity into Sociological Research

The so-called causal revolution that has spread through economics and into adjacent social sciences, including sociology, has been very much concerned with developing methods by which to arrive at credible causal estimates, especially in nonexperimental,
Pan, G, Breen, R
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The (misconceived) distinction between internal and external validity [PDF]

, 2015
Researchers often aim to make correct inferences both about that which is actually studied (internal validity) and about what the results generalize to (external validity).
Wallin, Annika, Persson, Johannes
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Transferability of Military-Specific Cognitive Research to Military Training and Operations

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Christopher A. J. Vine, Stephen D. Myers, Sarah L. Coakley, Sarah L. Coakley, Sam D. Blacker, Oliver R. Runswick, Oliver R. Runswick   +6 more
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Causal learning with two confounded causes over weeks

Judgment and Decision Making
Prior research shows that, when making causal inferences, people can control for alternative causes. However, these studies utilize artificial inter-trial intervals on the order of seconds; in real-life situations, people often experience data over days ...
Benjamin M. Rottman
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Assessing the Sensitivity and the Clinical Impact of the 2023 American College of Rheumatology/EULAR Classification Criteria in Obstetric Antiphospholid Syndrome: Findings From a Multicenter Italian Cohort With a Long‐Term Follow‐Up

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the 2023 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in a real‐world cohort of women diagnosed with primary obstetric APS (oAPS) and to assess their ability to identify patients at risk of future pregnancy complications ...
Francesca Ruffilli, Cecilia Nalli, Francesca Crisafulli, Carlo Garaffoni, Marcello Govoni, Giulia Voltarel, Alba C. Pozzi, Beatrice Maranini, Ettore Silvagni, Alessandra Bortoluzzi, Angela Tincani   +10 more
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker, Yangyuna Yang, Punyasha Roul, Aaron Baraff, Myra S. Schmaderer, Lani Zimmerman, Kaleb Michaud, Namrata Singh, Grant W. Cannon, Gary Kunkel, Ted R. Mikuls, Ariela R. Orkaby, Joshua F. Baker, Bryant R. England, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
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Artificial Intelligence in Systemic Sclerosis: Clinical Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune disease defined by immune dysregulation, vasculopathy, and progressive fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. Despite advances in care, major complications such as interstitial lung disease (ILD) and myocardial involvement remain the leading causes of morbidity and mortality.
Cristiana Sieiro Santos, José Miguel Sequí‐Sabater, Diego Benavent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unsupervised feature selection by means of external validity indices [PDF]

, 2013
Feature selection for unsupervised data is a difficult task because a reference partition is not available to evaluate the relevance of the features. Recently, different proposals of methods for consensus clustering have used external validity indices to
Béjar Alonso, Javier
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Associations of Lifestyle‐Related Factors and Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Activity: The Dutch South West Psoriatic Arthritis Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aims to investigate lifestyle‐related factors in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and their association with disease activity measurements. Methods This multicenter cohort included 938 patients who were newly diagnosed with PsA between 2013 and 2023.
Batoul Hojeij, Ilja Tchetverikov, Marc R. Kok, Marijn Vis, Yvonne Goekoop‐Ruiterman, Jessica Bijsterbosch, Paul Baudoin, Reinhard Bos, Jos H. van der Kaap, Petra Kok, Lindy‐Anne Korswagen, Jolanda J. Luime   +11 more
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Implications of external validity for research on polycentric and complex adaptive systems [PDF]

Much recent research has examined the implications of policy analysis for complex adaptive social-ecological systems. System complexity comes from both the natural environment as well as complex institutional arrangements that humans use to manage and ...
Coleman, Eric A.
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