Sentence examples for variation of items from inspiring English sources

These observed differences probably result in part from the variation of items included in the different lists.

An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was therefore indicated to explore the latent factor structure of the 96 scored questions, reduce the overlap between domain content and ensure common variation of items within a domain.

The size of a correlation depends on the degree of variation of items in either measure, and if range is attenuated in the questionnaire due to failure to discriminate, then correlations will be reduced.

PCA results showed that 57% of the variation of item difficulty hierarchy between diagnostic groups was explained by the symmetric or asymmetric nature of the disorders (figure 3).

An important focus of research has been the extent of differential item functioning (DIF) in this item bank, i.e., the variation of item difficulty across different patient populations, which can be a relevant source of biased PRO scores.

The second PCA component explained 28% of the variation of item difficulty hierarchy between diagnostic groups and distinguished patients expressing greater difficulties with proximal activities, such as NMD and CP, from more distal disorders such as SSc.

9 Other characteristics of the diseases than their symmetric/asymmetric or proximal/digital nature may explain, even though to a lesser extent, the variations of item difficulty hierarchy between disorders.

These data (absolute scores) show considerable variation of the items at baseline with ability to provide oxygen at the right flow rate and availability of oxygen having the lowest scores (<5/10) for both intervention and control hospitals.

A unique feature of the cross-cultural cognitive interviewing is that it assesses cross-cultural equivalence between the source language and target language survey, and aims to determine if the variation of interpretation of items between both is acceptable given the measurement goals.

The most relevant parameters explaining the ratio's variations were the number of items and the variance of the latent trait (R = 99.4%).

This discrepancy in results across HAPIEE populations may be attributed to issues surrounding translation artefact, cultural relevance of certain CASP items, and variation in the interpretation of items across respondents of different cultures (Ramirez, Ford, Stewart, & Teresi, 2005).