Type I Error Inflation in the Presence of a Ceiling Effect
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 57 (2), 97-104
- https://doi.org/10.1198/0003130031450
Abstract
Many variables in biomedical research (e.g., indices of health status) are measured with ceiling effects, in which a substantial number of subjects attain the highest possible scale value because t...Keywords
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