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Evaluating Scales for Ordinal Assessment in Clinical and Medical Psychology

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The present chapter elaborates on the use of ordered latent class models (OR-LCMs) in analyzing ordinal measurement properties of psychological tests and questionnaires in the context of clinical and medical psychology. Using simulated data, we illustrate several approaches for evaluating absolute fit of the model and we show how the fitted OR-LCMs can be used to gain insight into the reliability and the measurement precision of total scores for ranking and classifying individuals into ordered classes.

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  1. Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Wilco H. M. Emons & Paulette C. Flore

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  1. Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Roger E. Millsap

  2. Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    L. Andries van der Ark

  3. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Daniel M. Bolt

  4. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Carol M. Woods

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Emons, W.H.M., Flore, P.C. (2013). Evaluating Scales for Ordinal Assessment in Clinical and Medical Psychology. In: Millsap, R.E., van der Ark, L.A., Bolt, D.M., Woods, C.M. (eds) New Developments in Quantitative Psychology. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 66. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9348-8_29

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