BACKGROUND A reliable and valid global staging scale has been lacking within dementia care. OBJECTIVE To develop an easy-to-use multi-dimensional clinical staging schedule for dementia. METHODS The schedule was developed through: i) Two series of focus groups (40 and 48 participants, respectively) in Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and UK with a multi-disciplinary...

We reassess the predictability of U.S. recessions at horizons from three months to two years ahead for a large number of previously proposed leading-indicator variables. We employ an efficient probit estimator for partially missing data and assess relative model performance based on the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. While the Treasury term spread has the highest predictive powe...

Children with bronchiolitis from Hospitals Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) and Hospital Kota Bharu (HKB) were student using the Kristjansson Respiratory Score and the Wang Respiratory Score respectively. Saturation of oxygen (S(a)O(2)) was measured with a pulse-oximeter while the child is breathing room-air. Two observers assessed the respiratory scores in all children independently. The corre...

INTRODUCTION Tinnitus is a common otologic symptom that can seriously affect a patient's quality of life. The purpose of the present study was to translate and validate the Iowa Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire (THQ) into the Persian language, and to make it applicable as a tool for determining the effects of tinnitus on a patient's life. MATERIALS AND METHODS The main version of the THQ was t...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to establish the reliability and validity of the Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment questionnaire, which was translated into Korean, for patients with musculoskeletal disorder. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty-five subjects (26 males and 29 females) with musculoskeletal diseases participated in the study. The Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment q...

A novel method is described for obtaining superior classiication performance over a variable range of classiication costs. By analysis of a set of existing classiiers using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, a set of new realisable classiiers may be obtained by a principled random combination of two of the existing classiiers. These classiiers lie on the convex hull that contains ...

The paper investigates vanishing conditions on the first cohomology module of a normalized rank 2 vector bundle F on P which force F to split. The present vanishing conditions improve other conditions known in the literature and are obtained with simple computations on the Euler characteristic function, avoiding the speciality lemma and other heavy tools.

The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, known as the AUC, is currently considered to be the standard method to assess the accuracy of predictive distribution models. It avoids the supposed subjectivity in the threshold selection process, when continuous probability derived scores are converted to a binary presence–absence variable, by summarizing overall model performa...

The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE) has been used extensively as a measurement for psychosis proneness in clinical and research settings. However, no prior review and meta-analysis have comprehensively examined psychometric properties (reliability and validity) of CAPE scores across different studies. To study CAPE's internal reliability--ie, how well scale items correlate wi...

• This work overviews some developments on the estimation of the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve. Estimation methods in this area are constantly being developed, adjusted and extended, and it is thus impossible to cover all topics and areas of application in a single paper. Here, we focus on some frequentist and Bayesian methods which have been mostly employed in the medical setti...