... line This finding reasserts the test- retestreliability of the spiritual scale 60 retest = 0.97 * test 40 test Kappa statistics for categorical items are summarized in table Kappa isa chance-corrected ... 60 retest Figure of the spiritual scale Bivariate scatterplot between the test and retest total scores Bivariate scatterplot between the test and retest total scores of the spiritual scale Page ... Livingstone, Edinburgh; 2000 Narayanasamy A: Spiritual Care: A resource guide Lancaster, Quay Publishing; 1991 Mokuau N, Hishinuma E, Nishimura S: Validating ameasure of religiousness/spirituality...
... error Although test- retestreliability of mean values of spatio-temporal gait parameters has been assessed for reliability while walking alone, little is known on the test- retestreliability of gait ... dual-taskrelated changes of STV are due toa pathological process affecting older adults, toa normal biological variability following consecutive gait measures from trial to trial or toa measurement error ... considered as statistically significant All statistics were calculated using the Stata Statistical Software, version 11.1 Results All participants were able to complete single and dualtask walking,...
... the discrepancy in ordinal data A weakness of ordinary kappa statistics is that it treats all disagreements equally whether they are very large or very small [31] Internal consistency was examined ... test and retest data collection Being as this investigation isa part of a larger study concerning the impact of formal education in psychiatry on attitudes towards mental illness baseline data ... with a certain disorder appear in particular to have low testretest reliability The calculation of Cronbach’s alpha shows that none of the batteries of questions about the different disorders has...
... supplies capillaries is reached They assume that all paths from the heart to capillaries pass through n tubes and that the arterial network isa truncated self-similar fractal (i.e., a fractal-like ... 1.193, and the SSR is 1.6269 In the analysis of data in Table 1, it is assumed that maximum oxygen uptake is proportional to cardiac output (i.e Uo is constant) A more reasonable assumption is that ... close to the value from LSLR of data simulated using Equation (6) A similar approximation analysis of Equation (5) shows that it too is approximately a power function when α is approximately equal...
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... SNP and the other 20 SNP as a function of their distance to the causative SNP Statistical analysis The analysis consisted of two steps: analysis I and analysis II In analysis I, a QTL analysis ... testto real data, the significance threshold must be estimated from the real data The basic approach that is proposed isto perform a QTL analysis (i.e analysis I), and to calculate the TCLD statistic ... additive inheritance and was: Y = µ1 + Zm + e where μ is an overall mean, isa vector of ones, m isa vector of two random SNP allelic effects and e isa vector of random sampling errors; Z is...
... sample of animals with variable accuracy as: may To evaluate equation [7], several accuracy from the u distribution i scenarios (AS) were considered by simulating samples AS1: 20 000 animals from ... (1989) and Van Raden and Wiggans (1991) Evaluation of procedures to estimate accuracy is beyond the scope of this study, but the assumption that accuracies are estimated correctly is critical to ... e -0.161 can be applied directly to values in figure to approximate critical sire and progeny numbers for correlation analysis The above derivations assume that accuracies are calculated correctly...
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