Should total scores from a rating scale be used directly?

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 363-372

  Zhu, Weimo ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ordinal scale; Rasch analysis; Rating scale; Total scores

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; SPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPORTS;

EID: 0030228258     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.1996.10607966     Document Type: Article

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