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Gaussian variational estimation for multidimensional item response theory.
British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, 2020 Multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) is widely used in assessment and evaluation of educational and psychological tests. It models the individual response patterns by specifying a functional relationship between individuals' multiple latent ...
April E Cho +3 more
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Impact of Metastatic Patterns on Survival and Response to Therapy in Neuroblastoma
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background While the presence of metastases in neuroblastoma (NB) is a well‐established prognostic factor, the clinical significance of dissemination patterns and tumour burden and their impact on response and survival remains poorly understood.
Mariona Morell‐Daniel +15 more
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Item response theory in educational assessment and evaluation
Mesure et Évaluation en Éducation, 2008 Item response theory provides a useful and theoretically well-founded framework for educational measurement. It supports such activities as the construction of measurement instruments, linking and equating measurements, and evaluation of test bias and ...
Cees A.W. Glas
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The Schizotypal Ambivalence Scale: An Item Response Theory Analysis
Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Ambivalence has a prominent role in the historical formulations of schizotypy and schizophrenia, as well as borderline personality disorder. However, it has been overlooked by our current diagnostic nomenclature.
Lauren B. Deters +2 more
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The Role of Chemotherapy in Pediatric Myoepithelial Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myoepithelial carcinoma (MEC) in pediatric patients is a rare and aggressive malignancy characterized by heterogeneous morphology and variable molecular features. The optimal role of chemotherapy remains unclear. We conducted a systematic review according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines to evaluate chemotherapy in pediatric and young‐adult patients ...
Marco Salvi +7 more
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Students’ proficiency scores within multitrait item response theory
Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research, 2015 In this paper we present a series of item response models of data collected using the Force Concept Inventory. The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was designed to poll the Newtonian conception of force viewed as a multidimensional concept, that is, as a ...
Terry F. Scott, Daniel Schumayer
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Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2020 BackgroundThere is a need for accurate and efficient assessment tools that cover a range of mental health and psychosocial problems. Existing, lengthy self-report assessments may reduce accuracy due to respondent fatigue.
Emily E. Haroz +5 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida +6 more
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Modeling Composite Assessment Data Using Item Response Theory
CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, 2018 Composite assessments aim to combine different aspects of a disease in a single score and are utilized in a variety of therapeutic areas. The data arising from these evaluations are inherently discrete with distinct statistical properties.
Sebastian Ueckert
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Item Response Theory for Efficient Human Evaluation of Chatbots
EVAL4NLP, 2020 Conversational agent quality is currently assessed using human evaluation, and often requires an exorbitant number of comparisons to achieve statistical significance.
João Sedoc, L. Ungar
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