Blogs about: Measurement Error

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Extracting standard errors from 95%CI for meta-analysis (or weird uses for measurement error models)2 comments

Christos Argyropoulos wrote 4 months ago: I was recently confronted with the task of running a meta-analysis of a subject in which the various … more →

Tags: Meta-analysis, Berkson error, bayesian, Measurement Error, Meta-Analysis, Berkson Error

Measurement Error meeting at the RSS

Robert wrote 6 months ago: On 3 December the Royal Statistical Society’s Medical Section is holding a meeting on measurem … more →

Tags: statistics

Muller's 'noise' ...

Tom Harley wrote 9 months ago: Muller Says We Did This Posted on July 29, 2012 Muller says that we caused the 0.7 warming seen in t … more →

Tags: Climate, Weather, Comedy, Science, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, Undefined

It Is All Mostly Faith Anyway

moneygooguru wrote 10 months ago: What if I said that much, if not most, of the scientific or technical stuff you “know” is really bas … more →

Tags: scientific method, Experimental Uncertainties, Scientific Method, scientific interpretation, scientific observation, experimental error, margin of error, experimental uncertainty, Technical Jargon

What Will Bad Information Cost You?

moneygooguru wrote 11 months ago: This article was written primarily about the inaccuracies in scientific and other technical informat … more →

Tags: Not Just About Money, Help is out there, bad information, research bias, experimental error, scientific uncertainty, margin of error

Surveys measure what people do, not what people think

Schaun Wheeler wrote 1 year ago: In my previous post, I wrote about ways scale choice could distort the ways survey results portray t … more →

Tags: Design, data-collection, Analysis, Assumptions, interpretation, Research, social science, Scales, R

The 'scientifically proven' subterfuge.

Graham Coghill wrote 1 year ago: A claim of scientific proof might seem impressive, but it’s really a red flag! How to recogniz … more →

Tags: Science red flags, Science, scientific tests, multiple independent lines of evidence, uncertainty, confidence level, scientific proof

SONA: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly13 comments

theundergradpsychologist wrote 1 year ago: SONA:                     Whether you love, hate o … more →

Tags: Psychology, Ethical Principles, ethics, external, Sampling Error, SONA, student participant panels, validity

Why change scores are generally a bad idea for PROMs data: a worked example

mchankins wrote 1 year ago: Let’s imagine we have a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) for surgical outcomes and we g … more →

Tags: health gain, health status, outcome measure, surgical outcomes

Science quantifies the uncertainty in its data and conclusions.

Graham Coghill wrote 1 year ago: If you come across data that claims to be completely accurate, should you trust it?  This is one of … more →

Tags: Hallmarks of science, Science, uncertainty, confidence level

Is it Dishonest to Remove Outliers?8 comments

theundergradpsychologist wrote 1 year ago: “To include, or not to include, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffe … more →

Tags: Psychology, statistics, Research, Data, Outliers, andrewsarchus, Type 1error, Type 2 error, Sampling Error

ERRORS6 comments

Biddaiah M M wrote 1 year ago: Errors in Measurement : Error = Measured Value – True Value Em = Vm - Vt 1. Absolute Error :         … more →

Tags: MMM, altitude, Arithmetic, Bias, calculation, Calibration, Causes, Condition, Displaced

Nonparametric Tests of Panel Conditioning and Attrition Bias in Panel Surveys

Managing Editor wrote 2 years ago: Das, M., Toepoel, V., & van Soest, A. (2011). Nonparametric Tests of Panel Conditioning and Attr … more →

Tags: Post, panel conditioning, attrition bias, panel surveys

EVALUATION TIP #4 - What About the Data? (Part 3)

ldavidwilkinson wrote 2 years ago: In Evaluation Tip #2 (“What About the Data? Part 1”), I introduced the subject of data, specifically … more →

Tags: Evaluation, Nonprofits, Data, data-collection, measurement, Error, Tip

Statisitical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology1 comment

cphslib wrote 3 years ago: Book Description Environmental epidemiology is the study of the environmental causes of disease in p … more →

Tags: interesting book, Epidemiology, Environmental health, statistics, Basic Statistical Methods, Basic epidemiologic study, Multivariate models, Longitudinal models, time series models

Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear4 comments

raylyons wrote 4 years ago: In January my brother and I were laying laminate flooring in his house.  Each time we needed to trim … more →

Tags: measurement, Research, library evaluation, measurement precision, measurement scope, measurement validity

Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear3 comments

raylyons wrote 4 years ago: In January my brother and I were laying laminate flooring in his house.  Each time we needed to trim … more →

Tags: Research, measurement, library evaluation, measurement precision, measurement validity, measurement scope

Factor structure and reliability of the Dutch version of seven scales of the Communication Profile for the Hearing Impaired (CPHI)

Callier Library wrote 4 years ago: from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Seven scales of the Communication Profile … more →

Tags: Research, reliability, CPhI, Factor Analysis, internal consistency


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