Rasch models in health /

• Other Authors: Christensen, Karl Bang (Editor), Kreiner, Svend (Editor), Mesbah, Mounir (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE Ltd. ; John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
• Series: Applied mathematics series (John Wiley & Sons)
• Subjects: Rasch models.; Medicine > Research > Statistical methods.; Models, Statistical.; Statistics as Topic.; Health Surveys > statistics & numerical data.; MEDICAL > Research.; Electronic books.

""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 th...

Table of Contents:

• Probabilistic models. The Rasch model for dichotomous items / Svend Kreiner
• Rasch models for ordered polytomous items / Mounir Mesbah, Svend Kreiner
• Inference in the Rasch model. Estimation of item parameters / Karl Bang Christensen
• Person parameter estimation and measurement in Rasch models / Svend Kreiner, Karl Bang Christensen
• Checking the Rasch model. Item fit statistics / Karl Bang Christensen, Svend Kreiner
• Overall tests of the Rasch model / Svend Kreiner, Karl Bang Christensen
• Local dependence / Ida Marais
• Two tests of local independence / Svend Kreiner, Karl Bang Christensen
• Dimensionality / Mike Horton, Ida Marais, Karl Bang Christensen
• Applying the Rasch model. The polytomous Rasch model and the equating of two instruments / David Andrich
• A multidimensional latent class Rasch model for the assessment of the health-related quality of life / Silvia Bacci, Francesco Bartolucci
• Analysis of rater agreement by Rasch and IRT models / Jürgen Holm Petersen
• From measurement to analysis / Mounir Mesbah
• Analysis with repeatedly measured binary item response data by Rasch scales / Volkert Siersma, Paolo Eusebi
• Creating, translating and improving Rasch scales
• Writing health-related items for Rasch models
• patient-reported outcome scales for health sciences: from medical paternalism to patient autonomy / John Brodersen, Lynda C Doward, Hanne Thorsen, Stephen P Mckenna
• Adapting patient-reported outcome measures for use in new languages and cultures / Stephen P Mckenna, Jeanette Wilburn, Hanne Thorsen, John Brodersen
• Improving items that do not fit the Rasch model / Tine Nielsen, Svend Kreiner
• Analyzing and reporting Rasch models
• Software for Rasch analysis / Mounir Mesbah
• Reporting a Rasch analysis / Thomas Salzberger.