Sentence examples for indicating this item from inspiring English sources
For example, an examination of item G12 shows that for options 1 to 7, the probability is ≤ 0.3 for the entire severity range, indicating this item does not discriminate between different levels of symptom severity.
As our validation studies had indicated, this item was proving too difficult for people to answer and produced data of limited value.
The item "loose stools" listed only in the textbook [ 2] for the diagnosis of KDS-Yang was added as a control to the KDSQ, but was not found to be grouped to the domains of KDS-Yang by the EFA indicating this control item was independent from the domains of KDS-Yang.
One item (item 9) in the activity domain correlated weakly, indicating that this item may be removed without loss of information.
Furthermore, one of these items (becoming upset in relation to food intake) showed a flat distribution indicating that this item may have been misunderstood by participants.
The largest significant difference between satisfaction and importance was for improved quality of environmental conditions, indicating that this item has the greatest opportunity for improvement.
There was no correlation between CGI-Parents and "talks less" change scores (r = -0.12, p = 0.19), indicating that this item did not affect the parental rating of response to MPH.
The impact of items was calculated based on the proportion of patients who indicated each as important, multiplied by the mean importance score [ranging from 1 (least) to 5 (greatest)] indicated for this item (impact score = frequency cited × importance) [ 15].
These observations indicate that this item was not well understood by patients and the formulation was changed.
Together with a low estimated discrimination, this indicated that this item did not contribute very much to the intended estimate of the measure.
The negative loading of item 31, "I try not to express how I am feeling" indicates that this item requires reverse coding when scoring this subscale.
