Methodological and Statistical Considerations for the National Children's Study

The National Children's Study (NCS) statistics and item response theory group was tasked with promoting the quality of study measures and analysis. This paper provides an overview of six measurement and statistical considerations for the NCS: (1) Conceptual and Measurement Model; (2) Reliabilit...

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Autores principales: Hays, Ron D., Hubble, David, Jenkins, Frank, Fraser, Alexa, Carew, Beryl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34490151
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.595059
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description The National Children's Study (NCS) statistics and item response theory group was tasked with promoting the quality of study measures and analysis. This paper provides an overview of six measurement and statistical considerations for the NCS: (1) Conceptual and Measurement Model; (2) Reliability; (3) Validity; (4) Measurement Invariance; (5) Interpretability of Scores; and (6) Burden of administration. The guidance was based primarily on recommendations of the International Society of Quality of Life Research.
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spelling pubmed-84179452021-09-05 Methodological and Statistical Considerations for the National Children's Study Hays, Ron D. Hubble, David Jenkins, Frank Fraser, Alexa Carew, Beryl Front Pediatr Pediatrics The National Children's Study (NCS) statistics and item response theory group was tasked with promoting the quality of study measures and analysis. This paper provides an overview of six measurement and statistical considerations for the NCS: (1) Conceptual and Measurement Model; (2) Reliability; (3) Validity; (4) Measurement Invariance; (5) Interpretability of Scores; and (6) Burden of administration. The guidance was based primarily on recommendations of the International Society of Quality of Life Research. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8417945/ /pubmed/34490151 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.595059 Text en Copyright © 2021 Hays, Hubble, Jenkins, Fraser and Carew. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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