www.common-metrics.org: a web application to estimate scores from different patient-reported outcome measures on a common scale

Abstract Background Recently, a growing number of Item-Response Theory (IRT) models has been published, which allow estimation of a common latent variable from data derived by different Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs). When using data from different PROs, direct estimation of the latent variable ha...

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Main Authors: H. Felix Fischer, Matthias Rose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-016-0241-0