Sentences with phrase «dichotomous responses»

Optimal scoring to predict clinical syndrome classifications was to sum unweighted dichotomous responses across all 18 ASRS questions.

Domestic violence represents the sum of dichotomous responses to nine survey items asking caregivers about violent or abusive interactions with any current or previous domestic partner.

Because teachers were asked to provide dichotomous responses, in which checkmarks represented the use of the assessment type for each specific purpose, percentages were tabulated which represented the percentage of teachers affirmatively stating that they used a particular assessment category for a specific purpose.

Not exact matches

In the context of ethorobotics, we have recently proposed a series of dichotomous preference tests to study zebrafish response to an anchored robotic fish whose design is inspired by salient features of attraction in zebrafish.

Based on past work, 17,18 responses were assigned a score (0 for never or not in the past year, 1 for event occurred once, 2 for twice, 4 for 3 — 5 times, 8 for 6 — 10 times, 15 for 11 — 20 times, and 25 for > 20 times), and we created a dichotomous variable considering domain scores in the top 10th percentile as high risk for maltreatment.

The relations between independent predictor variables (measures of immunological and psychological function at entry to the trial, age of onset, and duration of illness) and dependent dichotomous outcome variables (self rated global outcome; presence or absence of caseness on the general health questionnaire at follow up; reduced or normal delayed responses to hypersensitivity skin test) were examined in separate logistic regression analyses.

Because previous research (Gilligan et al., in press; Suitor et al., 2009) has shown that the perception of any favoritism, rather than the particular pattern (e.g., mother preferred the respondent or another child), predicted sibling tension, we used the children's responses to create a dichotomous variable: 0 = child does not perceive mother as preferring any particular offspring as her future caregiver and 1 = child perceives that mother prefers either him / herself or another child as her caregiver.

The best of both worlds: Factor analysis of dichotomous data using item response theory and structural equation modeling