Background/Aim. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common cause of vaginal discomfort in women. The aim this study was to compare Nugent?s scoring system and novel microscopy method, introduced our laboratory used BV diagnosis. Methods. This included 705 pregnant asymptomatic women between 24 28 weeks pregnancy. degree agreement methods determined by the kappa (?) index. sensitivity, specificity, po...

Since it is generally recognised that models evaluated on the data that was used for constructing them are overly optimistic, in predictive modeling practice, the assessment of a model’s predictive performance frequently relies on a one-shot train-and-test split between observations used for estimating a model, and those used for validating it. Previous research has indicated the usefulness of ...

Short tests containing at most 15 items are used in clinical and health psychology, medicine, and psychiatry for making decisions about patients. Because short tests have large measurement error, the authors ask whether they are reliable enough for classifying patients into a treatment and a nontreatment group. For a given certainty level, proportions of correct classifications were computed fo...

since the promenades allocate the part of the country's revenues, therefore, attention to its valuation is very important. springs in desert area are the most prominent of natural landscapes. more study in country investigates recreational value using double– bounded dichotomous choice. but in this study, single-bounded dichotomous choice has been used because of this approach is more like...

Multiple-choice testing with dichotomous scoring is one of the most common assessment methods utilized in undergraduate education. Determining students’ perceptions toward different types multiple-choice formats important for effective assessment. The present study compared two alternative used a second-year required chemistry course: (1) Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IFAT®) and (2) ...

Empirical examinations of American Indian (AI) mascots have only recently entered into the discourse of mainstream psychology. The present studies examined implicit attitudes of non-AI people towards AI mascots and the extent to which they are related to attitudes towards AI people. Significant concordance was observed between negative bias toward AI mascots and AI people. Negative AI mascot bi...

Consensus means general agreement among possibly di erent views, while dichotomus voting rules are a means of making decisions by using votes to settle di erences of view. How then can it often be the case that a committee whose only formal mechanism for decision-making is a dichotomus voting rule reaches a consensus? In this paper, based on a game-theoretic model developed in three previous pa...

Previous studies have presented correlation analyses among fuzzy attributes. This study proposes a correlation analysis method among crisp attributes and fuzzy attributes to investigate their linear relationships. If A and B are two attributes, A is a nominal-dichotomous attribute, and B is a fuzzy attribute. Thus, identifying the relationship between A and B is possible by using the pointbiser...

The present study compared the fit of several IRT models to two personality assessment instruments. Data from 13,059 individuals responding to the US-English version of the Fifth Edition of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and 1,770 individuals responding to Goldberg's 50 item Big Five Personality measure were analyzed. Various issues pertaining to the fit of the IRT models t...