Sentence examples for the underlying items from inspiring English sources

We therefore also preferred an approach that avoids LID by the design of the underlying items instead of an approach based on modeling.

The importance of each indicator was calculated as the mean importance of the underlying items.

The underlying items, factor loadings and eigenvalues of the instrument that emerged after principal factor analysis with promax rotation and based on Kaiser's criterion and scree plot inspection are presented in Additional file 1 as background information.

This is because a sum-score mainly summarizes the variance shared by the factors (i.e., shared by the underlying items).

The responsiveness of the GPEQ was assessed for GPs evaluating Hamar community mental health centre from Stange municipality in 2006 and 2008 who were included in a quality improvement initiative expected to improve the guidance scale and underlying items for the intervention group.

Requested production rates of sales items, or alternative prefabricated modules in stock, are "broken down", exploded, to create the need for components, for all underlying items (articles) in the Bill of Material.

Table  2 summarises the health dimensions assessed by AQoL and their underlying items for respondents aged 75 and over.

The assumption underlying item development was the creation of sufficient items to cover each concept revealed during domain identification, but the major approach to factor analysis in this study was exploratory, to determine the underlying structure.

Using the Local Independence assumption underlying Item Response Theory (IRT), the marginal likelihood is expressed as (2) with G the normal distribution function.

In the next step, based on the underlying concept items were created to exhaustively cover the TPB framework for the scenario of decision making on DMTs.

Data from all the surveys were pooled for the exploratory factor analysis as it was assumed that the underlying relationships between items represented by latent factors should not be influenced by time.