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. 2012 Nov 28;12:182. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-182

Table 1.

Maximal difference of the averaged item locations and associated p-value for each item of the three dimensions studied, and for the variables gender, age, region and year of survey

 
 
Gender
Age
Region
Year of survey
    Diff* p$ Diff* p$ Diff* p$ Diff* p$
General Health
GH1
-
0.77
0.70
0.0055
-
0.98
-
0.23
GH11a
-
0.20
1.01
0.0049
-
0.95
-
0.14
GH11b
-
0.80
-
0.084
-
0.77
-
0.38
GH11c
-
0.065
-
0.39
-
0.14
-
0.38
GH11d
-
0.18
-
0.71
-
0.19
-
0.50
Physical Functioning
PF12
-
0.84
-
0.97
-
0.90
-
0.10
PF3
0.60
0.005
-
0.26
-
0.51
0.16
0.0264
PF45
-
0.84
-
0.87
-
0.79
0.17
0.0418
PF6
-
0.97
0.41
0.0498
-
0.90
-
0.070
PF789
-
0.56
-
0.067
-
0.81
-
0.14
PF10
-
0.23
-
0.99
-
0.99
-
0.23
Mental Health MH1
-
0.89
0.77
0.0003
-
0.86
-
0.89
MH2
-
0.68
-
0.93
-
0.99
-
0.13
MH3
-
0.88
-
0.56
-
0.51
-
0.22
MH4
-
0.35
-
0.71
-
0.99
-
0.95
MH5 - 0.21 - 0.18 - 0.48 - 0.19

* : maximal difference in absolute value between the estimated locations for each item between two levels of the variable studied.

$ : p-value associated to the maximal difference between the estimated locations for each item between two levels of the variable studied.