Fuzzy partial credit scaling: A valid approach for scoring the beck depression inventory

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1163-1172

  Yu, Sen Chi ^a   Yu, Min Ning ^b  

^a HUAFAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Beck depression inventory; Depression; Fuzzy partial credit scaling; Fuzzy set theory; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849168892     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2007.35.9.1163     Document Type: Article

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