Serial Interviews

Living and dying with metastatic bowel cancer: Serial in‐depth interviews with patients

Colorectal cancer is the second highest cause of cancer deaths. There are significant physical and psycho-social effects on quality of life with advanced disease. Despite this, there are few accounts of the patient experience from advanced illness through to dying. We elicited the longitudinal experiences of living and dying with incurable metastatic colorectal cancer by conducting serial inter...

Serial Correlation Coefficient

In this paper, we investigate the relation between two variables where the one is measured with the ratio or interval scale and the other with the nominal. In this cases, we use from serial correlation coefficient. Computation of some serial coefficient such as biserial and point-biserial coefficient is carried out with some examples and R program.

Unstructured Interviews

Multiple mini-interviews versus traditional interviews: stakeholder acceptability comparison.

CONTEXT The McGill University Faculty of Medicine undertook a pilot, simulation-based multiple mini-interview (MMI) for medical school applicant selection, which ran simultaneously with traditional unstructured interviews (all applicants underwent both processes). This paper examines major stakeholder (applicants and evaluators) opinions towards the MMI compared with traditional interviews, inc...

Matching with Interviews

This paper explores how interviews a¤ect the matching process when worker productivity is private information. Wages are determined by a single round of strategic bargaining after the worker is interviewed. The implications of this hiring process for the e¢ ciency of matching and the incidence and severity of statistical discrimination are considered. The better are …rms at identifying producti...