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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
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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]

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
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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
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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
John M S, Bartlett   +2 more
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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
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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
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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.
Gagolewski, Marek   +2 more
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Changing Swabs: To Validate or Not To Validate? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Microbiology, 2013
A widely perceived requirement for validation of all new specimen collection swabs by the laboratory appears to be the result of misinformation. Neither the College of American Pathologists (CAP) nor regulations through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) address specifically ...
J Michael, Miller   +2 more
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Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC-56 and 20): Turkish adaptation, reliability, and validity study

open access: yesThe Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2023
Background. The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish versions of the Measure of Processes of Care, MPOC-56 and MPOC-20, in children with disability aged 5-17 years. Methods.
Duygu Türker   +3 more
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Methodological Status of Moral Psychology Scales in Iran: A Systematic Review [PDF]

open access: yesاخلاق وحیانی, 2022
The purpose of the study was to investigate the conceptual and psychometric status of ethics scales in Iranian research from 1350 to 1399. The research method was a systematic review based on the COSMIN checklist in three indexes of validity, reliability,
hamid Rafiei-honar, Hamidraza Hasanabadi
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