Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

Score-to-percent coefficient: Use and potential in health sciences and psychology

Kastytis Smigelskas

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  Score transformations are usual and necessary part of different assessment tools in health research and psychology. Conditions to use transformations usually include the assumptions on normal distribution or taking into account the dispersion of the data. However, the distributions are not always normal, while dispersion is strongly dependent on the levels of sample’s homogeneity-heterogeneity levels. In addition, the use of different scales for particular phenomena makes the comparability of the findings across different studies not always feasible. Therefore, in this article one new transformed indicator is proposed – the score-to-percent coefficient (STP). Its potential includes psychological as well as general health research, with potential to solve the issues of transformations mentioned above.

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Kastytis Smigelskas, Score-to-percent coefficient: Use and potential in health sciences and psychology, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-7, ISSUE-1, JANUARY-2018

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