Sentences with phrase «internal consistency based»

Internal consistency based on all five items was reported as 0.78 and 1 - week test — retest reliability as 0.81 (Trost et al., 2003).

Not exact matches

The internal company theme for 2010 is «The Campaign for Consistency» which will take a look at the best practices and marketing efforts used in each store and try to create operational standards based on its findings.

But, Dawid notes, physicists have begun to use purely theoretical factors, such as the internal consistency of a theory or the absence of credible alternatives, to update estimates, instead of basing those revisions on actual data.

• Follow the level design pipeline from «pen & paper» game designs to implement spectacular character based levels and ultra-fun gameplay mechanics • Work closely with level layout artists to identify level assets and gameplay direction to ensure visual and technical quality for the levels • Follow direction of Lead Level Designer to maintain gameplay vision consistency • Contribute to level concept, layout, implementation (camera, entity, etc.), prototype modeling, scenario creation, event scripting, game balancing, pacing, and gameplay tuning • Contribute to general game design, as well as cooperate with all other facets of game production (programming, environment / world art and animation) • Place and trigger entities (such as enemies, movers, and objects) to create fun, absorbing gameplay • Master internal tools for modeling environments and integrating game play • Rough out world geometry, camera paths, and lighting using 3D world - building tools • Assist with the scripting of gameplay entities and events • Creatively resolve gameplay and production issues • Meet production schedules and deadlines • Collaborate with Design team to define and refine gameplay mechanics • Multitask effectively, prioritize competing demands, and follow through on details

The current lack of consistency between various data sets makes it difficult, based on current knowledge, to attribute the millennial time scale large - scale climate variations to external forcings (solar activity, episodes of intense volcanism), or to variability internal to the climate system.

Until we can establish a reasonable level of internal consistency and empirical adequacy, declining to interpret model - based probabilities as decision - relevant probabilities isn't high skepticism, but scientific common sense.

Based on these scores, our intelligent assistant suggests changes that improve readability, internal consistency, and compliance to standards and best practices.

Due to the ordinal and categorical nature of the response options, reliability was assessed using polychoric correlation - based version of the reliability coefficients.45 These analyses suggested satisfactory internal consistency for the SDQ total difficulties scale (α = 0.86) and for all subscales (α emotional problems = 0.82, conduct problems = 0.71, hyperactivity — inattention = 0.76, peer problems = 0.75 and prosocial behaviours = 0.77).

Investigators have used it as the criterion for diagnosis of behavior disturbance against which to gauge the validity of both screening instruments27 and psychological interview measures.28 The published Spanish version of the CBCL used in this study has been found to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity in Spanish - speaking populations.29 The CBCL was chosen as the standard of comparison to avoid basing the calculation of PSC validity on a small subset of the data as done in previous studies using structured interviews as the standard24,30 - 32 and because the CBCL has been widely used as the criterion standard in previous PSC research in both middle - class30, 33 - 35 and low - income minority populations.8

A comparison of psychometric properties between the online and paper - based administration of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was limited to internal consistency; further research is needed to assess measurement equivalence, noting that the recent international guidelines support the use of the Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 for depression and the General Anxiety Disorder 7 - item scale for anxiety in the CF population.

For example, the BITSEA scales include several behaviors that are low base rate in a community sample and thus may have higher internal consistency in more symptomatic or delayed samples.

Lyubomirsky and Lepper (1999), based on data collected on North American and Russian samples, developed the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS), which has been found to possess high internal consistency, good to excellent test?retest reliability, a unidimensional structure, and good convergent and discriminant validity.

As the ULS - 6 was based on the R - UCLA, it was examined the psychometric properties of the R - UCLA Loneliness Scale, namely the internal consistency and the factorial structure.

This is the idea of the internal working model; a template for future relationships based upon the infant's primary attachment, which creates a consistency between early emotional experiences and later relationships.

Scales were constructed based on the internal consistency of the scale measure using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient.

The effectiveness of discipline techniques is measured based on three factor scores (Laxness, Over-Reactivity, Verbosity) and a total score yielding good internal consistency (α = 0.83, 0.82, 0.63 and 0.84, respectively).

More precision could be gained and more information provided to our readers, if the system included more levels of discrimination (especially at the upper end of the continuum) or if measures could receive separate ratings for different aspects (e.g., internal consistency and generalizability) of their evidence base.