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1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Measuring in speech pathology -- 1.1 What is measuring? -- 1.2 Validity, sensitivity, reliability and agreement -- 1.3 The origin of scaling: psychophysics -- 1.4 Logarithms and the transformation of physical scales into perceptual equivalents -- 1.5 Measurement scales -- 1.6 Human/subjective vs. objective and instrumental measurements -- 1.7 The other chapters of this book -- 1.8 Exercises -- References -- Appendix 1.A Natural logarithm -- Appendix 1.B From Weber to Fechner |
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2 Obtaining human judgements in speech and language pathology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Rating scales -- 2.3 Measuring sensitivity in the context of signal detection theory (SDT) -- 2.4 Paired comparisons (PC) -- 2.5 Extent of similarity: multidimensional scaling (MDS) -- 2.6 Phonetic transcription as a measurement procedure -- 2.7 Exercises -- References -- Appendix 2.A Transcription systems -- 3 Assessing human judgements with statistical software -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The R-packages -- 3.3 SPSS -- 3.4 Web interfaces for R, and Excel -- 3.5 Example of another program: Medcalc |
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3.6 Refreshing some basic statistical knowledge -- 3.7 Scientific notation -- References -- 4 Assessing reliability in speech and language pathology -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Reliability and agreement -- 4.3 Levels of measurement and the 'laws' of statistics -- 4.4 Reliability: true scores and the error component -- 4.5 The calculation of an ICC reliability coefficient with SPSS and R -- 4.6 Supplementary information on coefficients of reliability -- 4.7 Assumptions underlying coefficients of reliability and alternatives -- 4.8 Reliability and Generalizibility Theory |
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4.9 Software used for coefficients of reliability -- 4.10 Exercises -- References -- Appendix 4.A Factor analysis -- 5 Assessment of agreement in speech and language pathology -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Contingency tables, bias and prevalence -- 5.3 Agreement and nominal scales -- 5.4 Alternative indices of agreement ('kappa-like' indices) and supplementary information -- 5.5 Agreement and ordinal scales -- 5.6 Categorical data with an underlying continuum: tetrachoric and polychoric correlation as measures of agreement -- 5.7 Agreement between more than two raters |
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5.8 A standard reliability measure: Krippendorff's alpha -- 5.9 Bland-Altman (B-A) plots for the assessment of agreement -- 5.10 Agreement between transcriptions/transcribers -- 5.11 Intra-rater agreement -- 5.12 Software for indices of agreement -- 5.13 Exercises -- References -- 6 Processing data in speech and language pathology with signal detection theory and paired comparisons -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Paired comparisons (PC), also called preferences -- 6.3 Signal detection theory (SDT): computing measures of sensitivity and response bias |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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6.4 Software used in paired comparisons and signal detection theory |
| Subject |
Speech disorders -- Diagnosis
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Language disorders -- Diagnosis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000336290 |
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1000336298 |
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