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Suen, Hoi K. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1984
The Bayesian inferential process is modified for use in an aggregate meta-analytic evaluation. Compared with the average effect size meta-analytic approach, the Bayesian approach was more sensitive, more consistent and more powerful. This approach is recommended when primary data are not available and when all evaluations involve comparisons of…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Data Interpretation, Effect Size, Evaluation Methods

Raymond, Mark R. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1989
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) and its potential use for research and evaluation in health-related professions are discussed. Useful data types, interpretation of results, and various applications of MDS are presented. MDS is less restrictive than factor analysis since it does not assume a linear relationship between the objects/variables of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Cluster Analysis, Data Interpretation, Discriminant Analysis

Colliver, Jerry A.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1990
Standardized patient case problems were administered to approximately 280 final year medical students. Results indicate that performance on a given component of clinical competence shows less consistency when measured on different cases than does performance on different components measured on the same case. (TJH)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Hypothesis Testing