Two participants completing a psychometric scale may leave wildly different responses yet attain the same mean score. Moreover, score often does not represent bulk of participants’ responses, which be skewed, kurtotic, or bimodal. Even so, researchers in psychological science aggregate item scores using an unweighted sum score, thereby neglecting substantial amount information. In present contr...

the porcine eye is often used as an ex vivo animal model in ophthalmological research. it is well-suited for investigations concerning refractive surgery; however, corneal topography data are scarce. this study investigated the corneal topography and pachymetry of the porcine eye to provide further reproducible data. we evaluated freshly enucleated porcine eyes (n = 16) by performing computeriz...