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Item reduction was performed by the deletion of low variability items.
The finding of hematuria and dysuria as low variability items in a late toxicity questionnaire was an expected finding.
The allocation varied from 5 to 7 severity items, 8 to 10 impact items and 5 to 7 variability items.
The higher measurement error of the dimension variability compared to the dimensions severity and impact, was also reflected in the fact that the item selection always started with two variability items after the respective random start items had been completed.
The majority of items included in QUADAS relate to bias (items 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 14), with only two items each relating to variability (items 1 and 2) and reporting (items 8, 9 and 13).
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To evaluate scaling assumptions underlying scoring of the SF-36 scales, item variability, item-internal consistency and item discriminant validity were assessed.
To assess item variability, the item frequency distributions, range, and standard deviations were calculated.
Total employees is the variable with the least average variability, and Items the one with the highest.
Finally, Bartlett's test of sphericity, a measure to determine whether there is sufficient variability among items, was significant (p < .05).05
Analyses of within-participant variability between items (Table 3) did not reveal any group difference either (ps>.73).
Variability of items was described with range of 25%-75%-75%centiles.
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