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Posted: | Chunyan Liu, Dan Jurich

Applied Psychological Measurement: Volume 47, issue 1, page(s) 34-47

 

This study used simulation to investigate the performance of the t-test method in detecting outliers and compared its performance with other outlier detection methods, including the logit difference method with 0.5 and 0.3 as the cutoff values and the robust z statistic with 2.7 as the cutoff value.

Posted: | D. Jurich, L. M. Duhigg, T. J. Plumb, S. A. Haist, J. L. Hawley, R. S. Lipner, L. Smith, S. M. Norby

CJASN May 2018, 13 (5) 710-717

 

Medical specialty and subspecialty fellowship programs administer subject-specific in-training examinations to provide feedback about level of medical knowledge to fellows preparing for subsequent board certification. This study evaluated the association between the American Society of Nephrology In-Training Examination and the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Certification Examination in terms of scores and passing status.