Diagnostic Procedure
psychometrics
psy·cho·met·rics [ sahy-kuh-me-triks ]
Subclass of:
Psychological Tests (procedure)
Definitions related to psychometrics:
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Assessment of psychological parameters by statistical or mathematical procedures.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Assessment of psychological variables by the application of mathematical procedures.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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The science of assessing the measurement characteristics of scales that assess human psychological characteristics.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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The science of measuring "psychological" aspects of a person such as knowledge, skills, abilities, or personality. Measurement of these unobservable phenomena is difficult and much of the research and accumulated art of this discipline is designed to reliably define and then quantify.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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