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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2016 Nov 7;31(12):1865–1873. doi: 10.1002/mds.26847

Table 2.

Gender-based DIF

Gender-based U-DIF: Impact magnitude of identified significant DIF
Item R2 Magnitude

Part 1
N=5547
1.4 Anxious Feelings 0.0033 Negligible
1.9 Pain 0.0019 Negligible

Part 2
N=5546
2.1 Speech 0.0104 Negligible
2.2 Saliva/drooling 0.0151 Negligible
2.7 Handwriting 0.0016 Negligible
2.9 Turning in bed 0.0030 Negligible
2.10 Tremors 0.0019 Negligible
2.11 Getting Out of Bed 0.0033 Negligible

Part 3
N=5326
3.1 Speech 0.0153 Negligible
3.2 Facial expression 0.0120 Negligible
3.3a Rigidity neck 0.0059 Negligible
3.3d Rigidity Right LE 0.0029 Negligible
3.5a Hand movements R 0.0009 Negligible
3.8a Leg Agility R 0.0032 Negligible
3.8b Leg Agility L 0.0015 Negligible
3.9 Arise From Chair 0.0039 Negligible
3.10 Gait 0.0016 Negligible
3.12 Postural Stability 0.0079 Negligible

Part 4
N=5562
4.1 Time with Dyskinesias 0.0026 Negligible
4.2 Functional impact of Dyskinesias 0.0047 Negligible

Legend: For gender, there was no NU-DIF identified. The Table lists items with U-DIF identified by both lordif and MIMIC as independent approaches (see Supplemental Material). McFadden's R2 values and Magnitude of impact are shown in the columns.7