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Rasch models in health / edited by Karl Bang Christensen, Svend Kreiner, Mounir Mesbah.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Applied mathematics series (John Wiley & Sons)
- Applied mathematics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rasch models.
- Medicine--Research--Statistical methods.
- Medicine.
- Medical sciences--Mathematics.
- Medical sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The family of statistical models known as Rasch models started with a simple model for responses to questions in educational tests presented together with a number of related models that the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch referred to as models for measurement. Since the beginning of the 1950's the use of Rasch models has grown and has spread from education to the measurement of health status. This book contains a comprehensive overview of the statistical theory of Rasch models.Part 1 contains the probabilistic definition of Rasch models, Part 2 describes the estimation of item and pe
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Probabilistic models
- pt. 2. Inference in the Rasch model
- pt. 3. Checking the Rasch model
- pt. 4. Applying the Rasch model
- pt. 5. Creating, translating and improving Rasch scales
- pt. 6. Analyzing and reporting Rasch models.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781118574546
- 1118574540
- 9781118574454
- 1118574451
- 9781299068346
- 1299068340
- 9781118574447
- 1118574443
- OCLC:
- 827208451
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