The EuroQol Group after 25 years / / Richard Brooks
| The EuroQol Group after 25 years / / Richard Brooks |
| Autore | Brooks Richard |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, 2012, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1072 |
| Soggetto topico | Health status indicators - Measurement |
| ISBN |
1-283-63438-4
9786613946836 94-007-5158-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The early years -- 3 Descriptive system -- 4 Translation, language and semantic issues -- 5 Valuation -- 6 Applications -- 7 EuroQol organisation and administration -- 8 Research, product development and the work of the Task Forces -- 9 The future -- References -- Appendices -- Index. |
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Brooks Richard
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| Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, 2012, c2013 | ||
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Health measurement scales : a practical guide to their development and use / / David L Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney
| Health measurement scales : a practical guide to their development and use / / David L Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney |
| Autore | Streiner David L |
| Edizione | [Fifth edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Health surveys
Health status indicators - Measurement Public health - Evaluation Medical care - Evaluation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-176545-7
0-19-150832-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Preface to the fifth edition""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction to health measurement scales""; ""Introduction to measurement""; ""A roadmap to the book""; ""Chapter 2 Basic concepts""; ""Introduction to basic concepts""; ""Searching the literature""; ""Critical review""; ""Empirical forms of validity""; ""The two traditions of assessment""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3 Devising the items""; ""Introduction to devising items""; ""The source of items""; ""Content validity""; ""Generic versus specific scales and the �fidelity versus bandwidth� issue""; ""Translation""
""Chapter 4 Scaling responses""""Introduction to scaling responses""; ""Some basic concepts""; ""Categorical judgements""; ""Continuous judgements""; ""To rate or to rank""; ""Multidimensional scaling""; ""Chapter 5 Selecting the items""; ""Introduction to selecting items""; ""Interpretability""; ""Face validity""; ""Frequency of endorsement and discrimination""; ""Homogeneity of the items""; ""Multifactor inventories""; ""When homogeneity does not matter""; ""Putting it all together""; ""Chapter 6 Biases in responding""; ""Introduction to biases in responding"" ""The differing perspectives""""Answering questions: the cognitive requirements""; ""Optimizing and satisficing""; ""Social desirability and faking good""; ""Deviation and faking bad""; ""Minimizing biased responding""; ""Yea-saying or acquiescence""; ""End-aversion, positive skew, and halo""; ""Framing""; ""Biases related to the measurement of change""; ""Reconciling the two positions""; ""Proxy reporting""; ""Testing the items""; ""Chapter 7 From items to scales""; ""Introduction to from items to scales""; ""Weighting the items""; ""Missing items""; ""Multiplicative composite scores"" ""Transforming the final score""""Age and sex norms""; ""Establishing cut points""; ""Receiver operating characteristic curves""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 8 Reliability""; ""Introduction to reliability""; ""Basic concepts""; ""Philosophical implications""; ""Terminology""; ""Defining reliability""; ""Other considerations in calculating the reliability of a test: measuring consistency or absolute agreement""; ""The observer nested within subject""; ""Multiple observations""; ""Other types of reliability""; ""Different forms of the reliability coefficient""; ""Kappa coefficient versus the ICC"" ""The method of Bland and Altman""""Issues of interpretation""; ""Improving reliability""; ""Standard error of the reliability coefficient and sample size""; ""Reliability generalization""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 9 Generalizability theory""; ""Introduction to generalizability theory""; ""Generalizability theory fundamentals""; ""An example""; ""The first step�the ANOVA""; ""Step 2�from ANOVA to G coefficients""; ""Step 3�from G study to D study""; ""ANOVA for statisticians and ANOVA for psychometricians""; ""Confidence intervals for G coefficients"" ""Getting the computer to do it for you"" |
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Streiner David L
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Health measurement scales : a practical guide to their development and use / / David L Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney
| Health measurement scales : a practical guide to their development and use / / David L Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney |
| Autore | Streiner David L |
| Edizione | [Fifth edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Health surveys
Health status indicators - Measurement Public health - Evaluation Medical care - Evaluation |
| ISBN |
0-19-150833-0
0-19-176545-7 0-19-150832-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Preface to the fifth edition""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction to health measurement scales""; ""Introduction to measurement""; ""A roadmap to the book""; ""Chapter 2 Basic concepts""; ""Introduction to basic concepts""; ""Searching the literature""; ""Critical review""; ""Empirical forms of validity""; ""The two traditions of assessment""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3 Devising the items""; ""Introduction to devising items""; ""The source of items""; ""Content validity""; ""Generic versus specific scales and the �fidelity versus bandwidth� issue""; ""Translation""
""Chapter 4 Scaling responses""""Introduction to scaling responses""; ""Some basic concepts""; ""Categorical judgements""; ""Continuous judgements""; ""To rate or to rank""; ""Multidimensional scaling""; ""Chapter 5 Selecting the items""; ""Introduction to selecting items""; ""Interpretability""; ""Face validity""; ""Frequency of endorsement and discrimination""; ""Homogeneity of the items""; ""Multifactor inventories""; ""When homogeneity does not matter""; ""Putting it all together""; ""Chapter 6 Biases in responding""; ""Introduction to biases in responding"" ""The differing perspectives""""Answering questions: the cognitive requirements""; ""Optimizing and satisficing""; ""Social desirability and faking good""; ""Deviation and faking bad""; ""Minimizing biased responding""; ""Yea-saying or acquiescence""; ""End-aversion, positive skew, and halo""; ""Framing""; ""Biases related to the measurement of change""; ""Reconciling the two positions""; ""Proxy reporting""; ""Testing the items""; ""Chapter 7 From items to scales""; ""Introduction to from items to scales""; ""Weighting the items""; ""Missing items""; ""Multiplicative composite scores"" ""Transforming the final score""""Age and sex norms""; ""Establishing cut points""; ""Receiver operating characteristic curves""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 8 Reliability""; ""Introduction to reliability""; ""Basic concepts""; ""Philosophical implications""; ""Terminology""; ""Defining reliability""; ""Other considerations in calculating the reliability of a test: measuring consistency or absolute agreement""; ""The observer nested within subject""; ""Multiple observations""; ""Other types of reliability""; ""Different forms of the reliability coefficient""; ""Kappa coefficient versus the ICC"" ""The method of Bland and Altman""""Issues of interpretation""; ""Improving reliability""; ""Standard error of the reliability coefficient and sample size""; ""Reliability generalization""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 9 Generalizability theory""; ""Introduction to generalizability theory""; ""Generalizability theory fundamentals""; ""An example""; ""The first step�the ANOVA""; ""Step 2�from ANOVA to G coefficients""; ""Step 3�from G study to D study""; ""ANOVA for statisticians and ANOVA for psychometricians""; ""Confidence intervals for G coefficients"" ""Getting the computer to do it for you"" |
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Streiner David L
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Health measurement scales : a practical guide to their development and use / / David L Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney
| Health measurement scales : a practical guide to their development and use / / David L Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney |
| Autore | Streiner David L |
| Edizione | [Fifth edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Health surveys
Health status indicators - Measurement Public health - Evaluation Medical care - Evaluation |
| ISBN |
0-19-150833-0
0-19-176545-7 0-19-150832-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Preface to the fifth edition""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction to health measurement scales""; ""Introduction to measurement""; ""A roadmap to the book""; ""Chapter 2 Basic concepts""; ""Introduction to basic concepts""; ""Searching the literature""; ""Critical review""; ""Empirical forms of validity""; ""The two traditions of assessment""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3 Devising the items""; ""Introduction to devising items""; ""The source of items""; ""Content validity""; ""Generic versus specific scales and the �fidelity versus bandwidth� issue""; ""Translation""
""Chapter 4 Scaling responses""""Introduction to scaling responses""; ""Some basic concepts""; ""Categorical judgements""; ""Continuous judgements""; ""To rate or to rank""; ""Multidimensional scaling""; ""Chapter 5 Selecting the items""; ""Introduction to selecting items""; ""Interpretability""; ""Face validity""; ""Frequency of endorsement and discrimination""; ""Homogeneity of the items""; ""Multifactor inventories""; ""When homogeneity does not matter""; ""Putting it all together""; ""Chapter 6 Biases in responding""; ""Introduction to biases in responding"" ""The differing perspectives""""Answering questions: the cognitive requirements""; ""Optimizing and satisficing""; ""Social desirability and faking good""; ""Deviation and faking bad""; ""Minimizing biased responding""; ""Yea-saying or acquiescence""; ""End-aversion, positive skew, and halo""; ""Framing""; ""Biases related to the measurement of change""; ""Reconciling the two positions""; ""Proxy reporting""; ""Testing the items""; ""Chapter 7 From items to scales""; ""Introduction to from items to scales""; ""Weighting the items""; ""Missing items""; ""Multiplicative composite scores"" ""Transforming the final score""""Age and sex norms""; ""Establishing cut points""; ""Receiver operating characteristic curves""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 8 Reliability""; ""Introduction to reliability""; ""Basic concepts""; ""Philosophical implications""; ""Terminology""; ""Defining reliability""; ""Other considerations in calculating the reliability of a test: measuring consistency or absolute agreement""; ""The observer nested within subject""; ""Multiple observations""; ""Other types of reliability""; ""Different forms of the reliability coefficient""; ""Kappa coefficient versus the ICC"" ""The method of Bland and Altman""""Issues of interpretation""; ""Improving reliability""; ""Standard error of the reliability coefficient and sample size""; ""Reliability generalization""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 9 Generalizability theory""; ""Introduction to generalizability theory""; ""Generalizability theory fundamentals""; ""An example""; ""The first step�the ANOVA""; ""Step 2�from ANOVA to G coefficients""; ""Step 3�from G study to D study""; ""ANOVA for statisticians and ANOVA for psychometricians""; ""Confidence intervals for G coefficients"" ""Getting the computer to do it for you"" |
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Streiner David L
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Progress and challenges in global food security / / Sharad Tandon [and six others]
| Progress and challenges in global food security / / Sharad Tandon [and six others] |
| Autore | Tandon Sharad |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 84 pages) : color illustrations |
| Collana | Economic information bulletin |
| Soggetto topico |
Produce trade - Law and legislation - United States
Food supply Food security - Measurement Health status indicators - Measurement Poor - Nutrition - Developing countries - Measurement Food security - Social aspects Agricultural productivity - Social aspects Hunger - Developing countries - Prevention Urban health |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Global food security |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910706111203321 |
Tandon Sharad
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| [Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, , 2017 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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