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Next steps for use of item response theory in the assessment of health outcomes

✍ Scribed by Ron D. Hays; Joseph Lipscomb

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 136 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 0962-9343
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-007-9175-7

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