repeated measures versus between subject

... Involving Human Subjects approved this study Analysis Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the preoperative characteristics of subjects We described change in clinical status between each ... tertiary care hospital Each subject participated in four evaluation sessions: pre-operatively and at two, four and six weeks after surgery During each evaluation session subjects rated the level ... indicated that it is difficult to differentiate between Activities and Participation as defined by the ICF Others believe that it is necessary to differentiate between these components if the ICF is to...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... the SPSS program was used (SPSS 11.0; SPSS, Inc; Chicago) Repeated measures on complete cases were also performed in SPSS, using repeated measures analysis of variance including only those patients ... Time (months) after transplantation 73 37 109 Figure Results of repeated measures ANOVA on complete cases Results of repeated measures ANOVA on complete cases Table 3: Variables in various stages ... 37 73 109 Figure of available case, repeated measures ANOVA on complete cases, and multi-level analysis Comparison Comparison of available case, repeated measures ANOVA on complete cases, and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... sets of health measures For ease of exposition we restrict ourselves to single measures The key idea of our approach to analyse reporting errors is to compare the subjective health measures to an ... commonly used subjective measures such as answers to the questions 'how good would you rate your health' and 'does your health limit you in your ability to work' Less subjective measures like ... effect of work on health, and that therefore remaining systematic differences between the subjective and objective measures across the labour market states can be attributed to reporting errors...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... to interact with it Subjective Measures 4.1 In addition to the above objective measures, we also gathered a range of subjective measures Before the interaction, we asked subjects to rate their ... objective and subjective measures, and also examined the correlation among measures of the same type The results on the objective measures varied widely across the subjects; also, the subjects generally ... results for both of these measures: 15 subjects looked at the robot fewer than 20 times during the interaction, 20 subjects looked at the robot between 20 to 30 times, while subjects looked at the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 01:20

... published between 1970 and 2006 This review is available from the authors MIS Quarterly Vol 33 No 4/December 2009 829 Titah & Barki/Nonlinearities Between Attitude and Subjective Norms action between ... robustness of the substitutive relationship observed between attitude and subjective norms Titah & Barki/Nonlinearities Between Attitude and Subjective Norms Table Sample Distribution Industry ... the relationship between social influence and intention to adopt To our knowledge, the present paper provides the first attempt to theorize a negative synergy between attitude and subjective norms...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 18:33

... there is enough commonality between generic descriptive measures and generic preference-based measures to derive a transformation with adequate predictive validity for between- group comparisons ... tested for strokespecific outcome measures and the extent of any additional error when transforming from descriptive stroke-specific measures to preference-based measures has yet to be quantified ... may be attributable to a better correspondence between the coverage of the SF-36 and the AQoL than between the SF-36 and other preference-based measures such as the EQ5D, HUI2/3 or the QWB Hawthorne,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Hypothesis – The strength of the association between measures which occupy adjacent tiers of the hierarchical model (described in figure 1) will be greater than that between the bottom and top tiers i.e ... Hypothesis The strength of the association between measures which occupy adjacent tiers of the hierarchical model (described in figure 1) will be greater than that between the bottom and top tiers i.e ... following hypotheses were tested: Global measures of health status Usual activities Single activity Figure Venn diagram depicting a simple "sub-group" relationship between the different tiers of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... of diseases [22] and the focus was on the relationship between patient characteristics and the EQ-5D index, not that between different measures of HRQoL The aim in studying the SF-6D was both ... percent of total variation that is due to heterogeneity between studies, or here, between disease/treatment groups Results Study sample sizes ranged between 68 and 2419 (Table 1) The EQ-5D index had ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/96 Figure between the EQ-5D index and patient characteristics/clinical outcome measures across diagnosis groups Relationship Relationship between the EQ-5D index and patient...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... modulations observed appear quite homogeneous among the different subjects analyzed, and no major differences between groups of subjects receiving two different doses of the cytokine were observed ... each repeated administration of the cytokine We then moved to applying statistics to sort out the most informative genes from the whole database, and performed a class comparison analysis between ... analysis was restricted to the 156 genes differentially expressed between T0 and T2 samples (A) or the 179 genes differentially expressed between T42 and T44 samples (B) For HBV study (C, D), the analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... genetic underpinning of subjective well-being A large body of literature indicates that personality traits are substantially related to subjective well-being: the variance of subjective wellbeing ... underlying individual differences in subjective well-being also accounted for individual differences in personality In other words, there were no genetic effects unique to subjective well-being; they ... Psychology 2006, 1:73-82 Emmons RA, McCullough ME: Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life Journal of Personality and Social...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... the GHQ-12 and the VS immediately after completing their physical activities The Subjective Vitality Scale (VS) The Subjective Vitality Scale (VS) is a seven-item instrument that was developed by ... and internal consistency for the same population The relationship between the two instruments Evidence indicates a strong link between vitality and a variety of health conditions [11] Thus, as ... testing this hypothesis and examining whether there is a relationship between psychological distress and vitality The relationship between the GHQ-12 and the VS has not yet been tested In Western...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... VMR pattern for subject B – 1st test NIRS signals and VMR pattern for subject B – 1st test Time course of the O2Hb and CO2Hb concentration signals for subject B (post-stroke subject) during BH ... VMR pattern for subject B – 2nd test NIRS signals and VMR pattern for subject B – 2nd test Time course of the O2Hb and CO2Hb concentration signals for subject B (post-stroke subject) during BH ... however, is subject dependent: it is impossible, in experimental conditions, to establish a BH duration equal for all the subjects To cope with this difficulty, we preliminary instructed the subjects...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... relationships between individual blood endocrines in humans Although most previous studies controlled for factors such as abstinence and age through the selection of study subjects for relationships between ... not controlled for This study examines the relationship between a number of semen parameters and endocrine measures as well as relationships between individual blood endocrines controlling for relevant ... analysis, were performed for relevant variables The relationship between semen parameters and endocrine measures on the one hand, and between basal and post GnRH endocrine levels on the other were...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... 0.893 and 0.913 for girls; and 0.879 and 0.895 for boys, comparing bone age versus Risser sign and Chronological age versus Risser sign, respectively Our results showed that TW3 method is as reliable ... the correlation coefficient of the Risser stage versus skeletal age was 0.56 for girls while Scoles et al [10] found it to be 0.81 for Risser stage versus chronological age Thus they using these ... for this population We found that the comparison of the Risser staging versus chronological age and the Risser staging versus TW3 bone age in both groups (with scoliosis and without scoliosis)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... distance between feature histograms, as will be explained in Section 2.2.3 Recently, specific distance measures between the pdfs of the feature vectors has been observed to be good similarity measures ... feature sets tuned for the particular tasks 2.2 Previous Similarity Measures Previous distance measures have used some statistical measures (mean, covariance, etc.) of the features (see Sections ... in [11] In Section we present similarity measures between pdfs parametrized by GMMs We propose a novel method for calculating the Euclidean distance between GMMs with full covariance matrices...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... survival for patients with N

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... adiposity measures revealed similar inferences about risk of primary joint replacement as the categorical measures No evidence was found for a departure from a linear association between adiposity measures ... any of the adiposity measures by at least 5% For each adiposity measure, all potential confounders were included in the model To test whether associations between adiposity measures and joint replacement ... of the adiposity measures The sensitivities at each quartile cutoff point, however, were lower for WHR than for the other adiposity measures (data not shown) The associations between adipose mass...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... without AF to testify this hypothesis Methods Subject Enrollment Newly diagnosed essential hypertensive subjects were enrolled in this study The subjects with documented AF were assigned into ... more prevalent in the EH+AF + subjects than in the EH+AF- subjects (P = 0.009) For the polymorphisms of +869 T ® C at codon 10, no significant difference were noted between the two groups (P = ... factors for AF subjects included age, CRP level and smoke Discussion The present study assessed the association between the single nucleotide polymorphisms at the TGF b1 locus and AF in subjects with...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21