Mokken analysis for these discordant items supported two hierarchical scales, discordant protective (three item; Loevinger H coefficient 0.35) and discordant celebratory (two item; Loevinger H coefficient 0.31).
A second questionnaire was administered for discordant items related to recommendations; non-consensual states of scientific knowledge and rated evidence were adapted.
The clinical significance of the presence of discordant items, the likely reasons underlying discordant data, and the magnitude of the difference in result between methods were also considered [ 30, 31].
Relationship between a discordant response to items 2 and 12 and clinical variables were analyzed using binary logistic regression, including sex, age, number of previous voluntary or compulsory admission, length of disease, diagnosis, BPRS scores, and C-AES subscales.
The overall proportion of discordant responses was low and the ICC was high for each item and for the food insecurity classification.
A subject's pair of intervals will either be concordant or discordant with respect to each of the triggers nominated on the item list.
These study results should be interpreted with several caveats in mind, including the small overall sample size, the small number of respondents interviewed about each item, and the possibility that the use of gender-discordant interviewers may have made some participants reticent to discuss difficulties with PRO-CTCAE items that reflect sexual functioning and genitourinary symptoms.
A discordant outlier may be identified as of intrinsic interest, rejected as a nuisance item, or incorporated in the main data via a revised model.
The discordant mood shift, or what producers called "light and shade", became routine, as items on keep-fit and horoscopes ran headlong into ones about alopecia and cancer, stitched together with a general tone of bright-eyed, routine empathy ("Your doctor said it was benign, didn't he?") and faintly manic cheerfulness.
Its computation involves examining every pair of items and counting the number of pairs that are similarly ranked (concordant) and the number differently ranked (discordant) relative to each other on the two variables.
