This article compares a variety of imputation strategies for ordinal missing data on Likert scale variables (number of categories = 2, 3, 5, or 7) in recovering reliability coefficients, mean scale scores, and regression coefficients of predicting one scale score from another. The examined strategies include imputing using normal data models with naïve rounding/without rounding, using latent va...

The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting science success eighth-grade students using Ordinal Logistic Regression method. In study, information collected from a total 4224 students, 2202 (52.1%) male and 2022 (47.9%) female, who participated in ABIDE 2016 application used. scores obtained course entering were transformed into categorical ones according determined threshold ...

We consider different types of loss functions for discrete ordinal regression, i.e. fitting labels that may take one of several discrete, but ordered, values. These types of labels arise when preferences are specified by selecting, for each item, one of several rating “levels”, e.g. one through five stars. We present two general threshold-based constructions which can be used to generalize loss...

introduction: musculoskeletal pain accompanied by psychological problem lead to reduce the efficiency of adolescents; so, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and its association with psychological factors among female adolescents. materials and methods: the target population of this cross sectional study was female students (3625 in total) from both private and ...

This paper contributes to the development of the capabilities approach by showing that capabilities can, counter prevailing wisdom, be measured. By operationalising the capabilities element of Sen’s non-welfarist theory, the paper develops the data required by this novel approach to welfare economics and by exploring relations to life-satisfaction (happiness) it also examines new economic co-va...

Understanding environmental as well as anthropogenic factors that influence large herbivore ecological patterns and processes should underpin their conservation and management. We assessed the influence of intrinsic, extrinsic environmental and extrinsic anthropogenic factors on movement behaviour of eight African large herbivore species. A cumulative odds ordinal logistic regression was used t...

We examined the visual perception of joint actions, in which two individuals coordinate their body movements in space and time to achieve a joint goal. Animations of interacting action pairs (partners in human interactions) and non-interacting action pairs (individual actors sampled from different interaction sequences) were shown in the experiment. Participants were asked to rate how likely th...

background non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is a common liver disease in the western population and expanding disease in the world. pathological changes in fatty liver are like alcohol liver damage, which can lead to end-stage liver disease. the prevalence of nafld in obese or overweight people is higher than general population, and it seems that people with high body mass index (bmi) ...