clinical research usually involves patients with a certain disease or a condition. the generalizability of clinical research findings is based on multiple factors related to the internal and external validity of the research methods. the main methodological issue that influences the generalizability of clinical research findings is the sampling method. in this educational article, we are explai...

Generalizability in a multi-subject fMRI study is investigated. The analysis is based on principal and independent component representations. Subsequent supervised learning and classification is carried out by canonical variates analysis and clustering methods. The generalization error is estimated by cross-validation, forming the so-called learning curves. The fMRI case story is a motor-contro...

In studying the case studies of traditional architectures according to Christopher Alexander’s theory about “the nature of order” and the fifteen fundamental properties introduced, it is important to note that the ontology of the theory is based on human’s indigenous feeling about architecture, which subsequently implies these kind of studies to be based on people’s cognitive images induced fro...

BACKGROUND There is a need for validated and easy-to-apply behavior-based tools for assessing interprofessional team competencies in clinical settings. The seven-item observer-based Modified McMaster-Ottawa scale was developed for the Team Objective Structured Clinical Encounter (TOSCE) to assess individual and team performance in interprofessional patient encounters. OBJECTIVE We aimed to im...

The concept of generalizability is not homogeneous and monolithic, but can be analyzed into four types: the generalizability of a theory to different settings, the generalizability of a theory within a setting, the generalizability of a measurement or observation, and the generalizability of a variable, construct, or other concept. In this study, we affirm the legitimacy of the statistical, sam...

The score reliability of language performance tests has attracted increasing interest. Classical Test Theory cannot examine multiple sources of measurement error. Generalizability theory extends Classical Test Theory to provide a practical framework to identify and estimate multiple factors contributing to the total variance of measurement. Generalizability theory by using analysis of variance ...

In this paper, we define the generalization problem, summarize various approaches in generalization, identify the credit assignment problem, and present the problem and some solutions in measuring generalizability. We discuss anomalies in the ordering of hypotheses in a subdomain when performance is normalized and averaged, and show conditions under which anomalies can be eliminated. To general...