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Thorax 56:138-142 doi:10.1136/thorax.56.2.138
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Patient weighting of importance of asthma symptoms

Table 5

Results from the ordered probit regression analysis for questionnaire 1, questionnaire 2, and merged data

Questionnaire 1 (n=608) Questionnaire 2 (n=688) Total
Daytime cough –0.48 (0.04) –0.55 (0.04) –0.52
Daytime breathlessness –0.48 (0.04) –0.50 (0.04) –0.49
Daytime wheeze –0.25 (0.07) –0.24 (0.07) –0.25
Chest tightness –0.24 (0.07) –0.30 (0.07) –0.27
Sleep disturbance –0.26 (0.05) –0.24 (0.05) –0.25
  • The χ2 statistic (95% critical value 11.07) was used for testing the restriction that the coefficients are the same for surveys 1 and 2. Likelihood ratio (LR) = 3.54, hence the H0(no difference between weights in the two surveys) cannot be rejected. All p values ⩽0.001.

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