Sentence examples for distributional item from inspiring English sources

This analysis provides reassurance that the promotion of the items to interval measurement assumptions did not deviate from the pattern of factor coefficients compared with a less constrained distributional item profile.

These items' distributional properties are indicative of appropriate psychometric sensitivity as it would be expected that these items would follow an approximate normal distribution in the population under study.

However, the stability of kappa estimates is affected by the distributional properties of items.

The psychometric and distributional properties of items are scrutinized carefully to ensure reliability, validity and clinical relevance.

Unfortunately, most OAV items were not only positively skewed and kurtotic, but also showed a strong piling up of values at the lower end of the scale (39% of zero values on average and 71% at the most) and a modest piling up of values at the upper end of the scale (6% of values on average and 27% at the most; see Table S1 for the distributional characteristics of each item).

Item-level distributional statistics were tabulated including mean, median, standard deviation (SD), percentage of the sample at the floor (score of 0―lowest possible score―or the least possible nausea/vomiting) and ceiling (highest possible score or the greatestt possible nausea/vomiting), and item-level missing data.

Distributional characteristics (right skewness) and item difficulty (pm < 0.5) were also taken into account, considering the clinical implications of Young's EMS theory.

The most natural approach is through an appropriate choice of distributional assumption for each data item.

Some classifiers make particular distributional assumptions.

Items and their distributional characteristics were reviewed.

The LLRA requires neither items' unidimensionality nor distributional assumptions about the population of subjects [ 31].