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COSMIN methodology for evaluating the content validity of patient-reported outcome measures: a Delphi study

open access: yesQuality of Life Research, 2018
BackgroundContent validity is the most important measurement property of a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) and the most challenging to assess. Our aims were to: (1) develop standards for evaluating the quality of PROM development; (2) update the ...
C. Terwee   +10 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity.

open access: yesMedicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2003
C. Craig   +10 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Psychometric properties of an instrument 3: convergent, discriminant, known-groups, and criterion validity [PDF]

open access: yesKorean Journal of Women Health Nursing, 2021
Before evaluating convergent, discriminant, and known-groups validity, it is suggested to design an instrument that reflects hypothetical relationships or differences with other comparator instruments or groups.
Eun-Hyun Lee
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnostic Accuracy of the RIPASA Score in Suspected Acute Appendicitis in Adults: A Cross-sectional Study Comparing it with Histopathological Findings from Bagalkot, India [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery, 2023
Introduction: Acute appendicitis remains the most commonly occurring surgical emergency, with a prevalence rate of approximately 8% among individuals aged 10-30 years.
C Shobha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is Construct Validation Valid? [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2016
What makes a measure of well-being valid? The dominant approach today, construct validation, uses psychometrics to ensure that questionnaires behave in accordance with background knowledge. Our first claim is interpretive—construct validation obeys a coherentist logic that seeks to balance diverse sources of evidence about the construct in question ...
Alexandrova, A, Haybron, DM
openaire   +2 more sources

Validated or Not Validated? That Is the Question [PDF]

open access: yesJNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014
deviation estimates were … acceptable as they are
Melanie Spears   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Are cluster validity measures (in) valid?

open access: yesInformation Sciences, 2021
Internal cluster validity measures (such as the Calinski-Harabasz, Dunn, or Davies-Bouldin indices) are frequently used for selecting the appropriate number of partitions a dataset should be split into. In this paper we consider what happens if we treat such indices as objective functions in unsupervised learning activities.
Maciej Bartoszuk   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Reappraisal of the Reasons for the Validity of the Mu‘āṭāt Sale from Imam Khomeini’s Perspective

open access: yesمطالعات تطبیقی فقه و اصول مذاهب, 2022
One of the controversial issues of sale in Imāmī jurisprudence is bay‘-i mu‘āṭāt (give-and-take sale). Therefore, it is necessary to examine the reasons behind the authenticity of this kind of sale.
mohammad kakavand   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Confirmatory factor analysis and gender invariance of the Persian version of psychological control scale: association with internalizing and externalizing behavior problems

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThe current cross-sectional study aimed to examine the reliability, construct validity, gender invariance and concurrent validity of the psychological control scale-youth self-report (PCS-YSR) among Iranian adolescents.MethodsA total of 1,453
Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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