Rating Scale Abstract Hamilton Depression Rating Scale which is observer-rating scale is used to assess severity and type of depression. The aim of this paper is to review and evaluate psychometric properties of HDRS. Six articles which used HDRS are analyzed in terms of reliability and validity evidence of HDRS. Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
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Types of Measurement Scales Marc Waters MKT/441 June 9‚ 2014 Cyndie Shadow Types of Measurement Scales Introduction For this week’s assignment‚ students are to select four types of types of measurement increasing order of sophistication; they are Nominal‚ Ordinal‚ Interval‚ and Ratio. These are categories in which numbers are grouped. This paper will also demonstrate how they can be effective in surveys or questionnaires. Nominal The number we assign to some object‚ idea‚ or behavior is
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What techniques discussed in this chapter did he seem to apply? Answer: The technique discussed in this chapter did Mr. Trump seem to apply is behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS). It is an appraisal method that aims at combining the benefits of narrative critical incidents and quantified ratings by anchoring a quantified scale with specific narrative example of good or poor performance. There are five steps required to developing the BARS which the first one is write critical incidents. On
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Hamilton depression rating scale Psychometric evaluation was carried out using 17 items of the Hamilton Depression Scale. It is a clinician-administered scale that assesses the severity of depression. A score of 8 or lower is considered to reflect an asymptomatic state‚ with an increasing continuum of symptom severity as scores increase (Hamilton‚ 1967; Lotfy‚ 1994). The young mania rating scale The Young Mania Rating Scale is an 11-item clinician-administered scale used to measure the severity
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Making Research Decisions Rating Scales As a researcher‚ one must choose which rating scale is going to be the most effective method. Once choosing the scale‚ he/she then must decide the amount of choices the subject has. We are going to explore four different scales: 1. Yes/Depends/no‚ 2. Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor‚ 3. Excellent/Good/Average/Poor‚ and 4. Strongly Approve/Approve/Uncertain/Disapprove Strongly Disapprove. I believe that the yes –maybe-no scale is somewhat week unless used
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Economy of scale refers to the benefits of producing on a large scale. When firms and industries increase the scale of their operation there can be advantages which reduce the average (unit) cost of their output. Internal economy of scale is the benefit‚ in the form of lower average costs‚ which a firm can gain from increasing its size. Internal economies of scale arise from the growth of the firm itself. One internal economy of scale can be marketing economies. For food retail industry‚ large
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ECONOMIES OF SCALE Economies of scale are an important aspect of efficiency in production .Economies of can henceforth be define as ‘the reduction in average costs of production‚ that occur as a firm increases in size’. As businesses grow and their outputs increases‚they commonly benefit from a reduction in average costs of production.Total costs will increase with the increase in output‚but the cost of producing each unit falls as output increases .The reduction
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demonstrates how the composer explores important issues Robert Caswell’s Australian screenplay Scales of Justice ‘The Job’ explores many issues‚ including corruption within the workplace‚ racism and the avoidance of crime throughout the text. He deals with these themes and issues through the eyes of a naïve new Probationary Constable‚ Len Webber‚ as he battles with his conscience against right and wrong. In scales of Justice ‘The Job’‚ Constable Len Webber is new to the police Force. Sergeant O’Rourke
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Scales of Justice shows a police force where there is a culture of corruption. The parts of the TV program that we saw were made up of two parts‚ The Job‚ and the Game. The Job is about a new probationary officer named Webber‚ and how he is forced to accept the corruption that occurs in the force‚ and ends up getting fired. The Game takes corruption to a new level involving higher powers such as MP’s and non-uniformed officers. They both are good examples of how it is a culture for them. The
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1 9/7/2012 English 101 On a scale from 1 to 10 "The Pain Scale" by Eula Biss is a very controversial and interesting piece of writing in which Bliss attempts to determine a scale to measure her pain. However‚ the writer begins to realize that the duty of associating pain with a number and measurement is much harder than it appears due to the fact that she is unsure what it truly means to "measure things". The practice of giving pain a set of numbers was introduced by the hospice
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