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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
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International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity.
C. Craig+10 more
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Psychometric properties of an instrument 3: convergent, discriminant, known-groups, and criterion validity [PDF]
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
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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]
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
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Is Construct Validation Valid? [PDF]
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
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Validated or Not Validated? That Is the Question [PDF]
deviation estimates were … acceptable as they are
Melanie Spears+2 more
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Are cluster validity measures (in) valid?
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
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Reappraisal of the Reasons for the Validity of the Mu‘āṭāt Sale from Imam Khomeini’s Perspective
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
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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
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