A 37-item shoulder functional status item pool had negligible differential item functioning

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 478-484

  Crane, Paul K ^a   Hart, Dennis L ^b   Gibbons, Laura E ^a   Cook, Karon F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes Inc   (United States)

^c Veterans Affairs Measurement Excellence and Training Resource Information Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential item functioning; Item response theory; Measurement invariance; Ordinal logistic regression; Psychometrics; Shoulder function

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; ORDINAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOULDER INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 33646042569     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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