Application of item response theory for development of a global functioning measure of dementia with linear measurement properties

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 11-12, 2000, Pages 1631-1644

  Mungas, Dan ^a,b   Reed, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0034659673     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000615/30)19:11/12<1631::AID-SIM451>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Conference Paper

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