Harm Peters, Amelie Garbe, Simon M Breil, Sebastian Oberst, Susanne Selch, Ylva Holzhausen
Big five personality traits of medical students and workplace performance in the final clerkship year using an EPA framework
BMC medical education
background cognitive assessments patients neurocognitive disorders mostly measured montreal cognitive assessment moca visual cognitive assessment test vcat screening tools cognitive scores usually leftskewed results association analysis might robust study aims study distribution cognitive outcomes discuss potential solutions materials methods retrospective cohort study individuals subjective cognitive decline mild cognitive impairment inversetransformed cognitive outcomes modelled using different statistical distributions robustness proposed models checked different scenarios interceptonly models covariates without bootstrapping results main results based vcat score validated via moca score findings suggested inverse transformation method improved modelling cognitive scores compared conventional methods using original cognitive scores association baseline characteristics age gender years education cognitive outcomes reported estimates 95 confidence intervals bootstrap methods improved estimate precision bootstrapped standard errors estimates robust cognitive outcomes widely analysed using linear regression models default normal distribution conventional method compared results suggested models normal distribution various scenarios goodnessoffit measurements compared proposed models conventional methods conclusions findings support use inverse transformation method model cognitive outcomes instead original cognitive scores earlystage neurocognitive disorders cognitive outcomes leftskewed