Power and sample size determination in the Rasch model: Evaluation of the robustness of a numerical method to non-normality of the latent trait

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Guilleux, Alice ^a   Blanchin, Myriam ^a   Hardouin, Jean Benoit ^a   Sébille, Véronique ^a  

^a Universite de Nantes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; LATENT TRAIT; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME; RASCH ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; TEST OF GROUP EFFECT;

ALGORITHMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84897503971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083652     Document Type: Article

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