Comparison of CTT and Rasch-based approaches for the analysis of longitudinal Patient Reported Outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 825-838

  Blanchin, Myriam ^a   Hardouin, Jean Benoit ^a   Neel, Tanguy Le ^a   Kubis, Gildas ^a   Blanchard, Claire ^b   Mirallié, Eric ^b   Sébille, Véronique ^a  

^a Universite de Nantes   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Classical Test Theory; Item Response Theory; Longitudinal data; Patient Reported Outcomes; Simulation study

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLASSICAL TEST THEORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POWER ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASCH ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 79953016399     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4153     Document Type: Article

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