OMbook_glossary

This came out of doing some recent additions about change measurement and is a bit...

[This entry overlaps with many others, see links] A randomised controlled trial is a way of...

Things are deranged if they are out of order. Interestingly, whether we can put...

OK, time I dived into health economic terms! Details DALYs are an extension of QALYs: Quality...

This is the extremely common situation in which we convert a continuous measurement into a...

This is my way of clarifying some terms that are often thrown around in psychometrics....

One of too many terms that have been pulled across from physical health medicine and...

This covers statistical methods of summarising a dataset that aim only to summarise the data...

With convergent validity, this is part of concurrent validity, it's whether values on a measure...

Well of course you'd look after your data wouldn't you? You don't want anyone...

I've been putting this off! It's actually quite a basic idea but it covers...

Clearly the idea comes out of medicine and what is sometimes called "the medical model"...

Synonym of re-identification, see, anonymisation, pseudonymisation, confidentiality and smallest identical subset for more on this...

It's useful to think of distributions of continuous variables in terms of their "central location",...

A variable that can only take distinct values. Examples might included the locality within a...

The frequencies of values for a variable. The term is more often applied to continuous...

See "blinding" Details "Double blind" refers to the requirement for idea pharmacological randomised controlled trials that not...

Though there are statistical methods that handle relationships between many variables, very often we look...

See sample to read why I think we should be using "dataset" instead of "sample". A...