OMbook_glossary

This is just the minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and the maximum. They...

Also known as the "positive specific agreement" measure. Details In our field you are likely to...

This relates to the "multiple tests problem/issue": if you do multiple statistical tests in the...

Best seen as an extension of the methods of survival analysis which are statistical methods...

Same as the "Type II error rate", i.e. the risk that a statistical test will...

Same as the "Type I error rate": the risk of a statistical test rejecting the...

When a screening test scores negative, i.e. below some cutting point, but the person does...

When a screening test scores positive, above some cutting point, but the person does not...

This expands the summary entry under validity. It's probably best to read the whole...

A floor effect in multi-item outcome measures occurs when most people choose the lowest possible...

Factor Analyses (FA) are a set of techniques that allows us to look in more...