Sentence examples for spread of items from inspiring English sources

Complex contagion represents spread of items under the influences of intensive, repeated and valued contacts.

Generic scales do have another use in clinical trials – their broader spread of items makes them more suited to detecting iatrogenic effects.

However, it was the aim to include a reasonable spread of items in terms of the degree of severity they represented.

The broader spread of items in the generic quality-of-life scales makes them more suitable for detecting an adverse effect of screening rather than the potential benefits [ 34].

To illustrate the spread of items in the living standard and assets variables, only 11.0% of the total population had three or more of the living standard items and the corresponding figure for assets in the household was 10.8%.

However, the targeting has been satisfactory with reasonably good spread of items along the well-being continuum of the sample and people with disability had significantly poorer well-being scores compared to the controls (mean difference = 0.97, p < 0.001).

However, the spread of item difficulty was not satisfactory, with most items located on the lower end of the scale.

We also assessed the spread of item difficulty using the item-person map (Wright map) displayed in Figure  1.

Good scale targeting is indicated by a good spread of item threshold locations that correspond to person locations above the x-axis.

Rasch analysis confirmed the majority of items fit with the latent trait of staff engagement with infit statistics between 0.7 and 1.3; and showed a good spread of item difficulty covering person ability.

Nevertheless, the scale is very successful in separating persons at different levels of the scale as indicated by the person separation index. 1 SD represented by the standard deviation of the threshold locations which better reflects the spread of item difficulties.