Sentence examples for discrimination validity from inspiring English sources

For discrimination validity we evaluated whether the scale and domains could discriminate those with different QOL: men with and without BPH, patients with BPH of different severity according to the IPSS (Total score has a range of 0 to 35: mild 0 7; moderate 8 19; and severe >20), and patients recruited from different settings inpatient, outpatient and community-based.

In the current study, CFA was used to measure the reliability, convergent validity, and discrimination validity.

Set validity and discrimination validity were calculated for each of the dimensions of the questionnaire.

ANOVA tests were used to examine the discrimination validity of the ChQOL.

In a Finnish study, discrimination validity of the questions were supported by the results, after which the correlations of the questions with foreign scales were mostly lower than with specially designed scale.

The Iranian version of PedsQL™ 4.0 was able to detect the hypothesized differences between healthy and chronically ill children supporting the initial discrimination validity of the Iranian version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 for children.

It had good convergent and discrimination validities; e.g., good correlation with the Piper Fatigue scale (0.75) and Profile of Mood States (0.74), and it differentiated between different levels of haemoglobin in patients with cancer [ 7].

The concept described here as 'discrimination' is also referred to as 'discriminatory power' [ 3] but should not be confused with discriminant validity, item discrimination or discriminant functions.

The RSE shows discriminant validity against anxiety (r = -.34, p <.01), and social discrimination (r = -.40, p <.01).

Jacoby and Matell [ 4] proclaim that a three-point Likert scale (bipolar scale) [ 5] provides an appropriate discrimination and validity.

A comparison of scores, facility, discrimination, reliability and validity from 3-, 4- and 5-option versions of the multiple choice test found little variation in the performance of the three option formats although higher numbers of options tended to increase difficulty and to spread responses between the options.