Sentence examples for conditional items from inspiring English sources

Checklists, as evidenced in the aviation industry, do address complex, multievent situations and include conditional items, and need not be followed by rote (e.g., administering antibiotics without confirmation of pneumonia).

Because these were conditional items (affecting only those with dietary restrictions), this modification was addressed in the revised instrument.

In this study, approximately half of the patients reported not being sexually active and did not respond to those 4 items, resulting in fewer responses to those conditional items in this domain.

Such a core list could then be incorporated into an electronic medical record template (with branching logic guiding the documentation of conditional items such as chest compressions), thereby facilitating quick and essential documentation, and more importantly, quick retrieval of accurate data through field-defined electronic queries.

The conditional item response model describes the relationship between the observed item response vector x and the latent variables, θ.

The conditional item response model and the population model are combined to obtain the unconditional, or marginal, item response model: f x x ; γ, Σ, W = ∫ θ f x x ; ξ θ f θ θ ; γ, Σ, W d θ (1).

The multilevel scaling model used consists of two components a conditional item response model, f x (x; ξ ξ|θ), and a population model, f θ (θ; γ, Σ, W).

In general, the following rules were applied to the multiple-choice itemsd: For each item with a bimodal RT distribution, the threshold was defined as the RT value at which there was a gap in the RT distribution and the conditional item P + stopped fluctuating around the chance level.

For the general mixture PD model, the conditional item response probabilities are defined as upeta_{pi} = left{ begin{array}{*{20}ll} upalpha_{i } cdot uptheta_{p } + upbeta_{i}, &quad {text{if}}; updelta_{p} le i, tilde{upalpha }_{ig} cdot tilde{uptheta }_{p } + tilde{upbeta }_{ig},&quad {text{if}} ; updelta_{p} > i, end{array} right.

19 The EORTC QLQ-PR25 comprises 20 core and 5 conditional questions, organised into five multi-item subscales assessing: urinary, bowel and hormone treatment-related symptoms; sexual activity and sexual functioning (conditional on being sexually active); and a single conditional item assessing urinary bother due to use of incontinence aids.

Based on the conditional item probabilities (Table 2), class one was termed 'usually conspicuous day & night'; class two was termed 'often conspicuous during the day and do not cycle in the dark'; class three was termed 'occasionally conspicuous day & night'; and class four was termed 'rarely conspicuous during the day but conspicuous in the dark'.