Modelling Psychiatric Measures Using Skew-Normal Distributions
Open Access
- 30 October 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Psychiatry
- Vol. 26 (2) , 112-114
Abstract
Data from psychiatric research frequently exhibit departures from Normality. Methods which utilise the data optimally to model the distribution directly are available. We highlight the issue of modelling skewness, resulting from screening instruments where the majority of respondents are healthy individuals and few participants have a value reflecting particular disorders.Keywords
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