Rasch Related Models And Methods For Health Science

The family of statistical models known as Rasch models started with a simple model for responses to questions in educational tests presented together with a number of related models that the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch referred to as models for measurement. Since the beginning of the 1950s the use of Rasch models has grown and has spread from education to the measurement of health status. This book contains a comprehensive overview of the statistical theory of Rasch models.
Part 1 contains the probabilistic definition of Rasch models, Part 2 describes the estimation of item and person parameters, Part 3 concerns the assessment of the data-model fit of Rasch models, Part 4 contains applications of Rasch models, Part 5 discusses how to develop health-related instruments for Rasch models, and Part 6 describes how to perform Rasch analysis and document results.

Karl Bang Christensen is Associate professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His primary research areas include Biostatistics, IRT models, scale validation.

Svend Kreiner is professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, University. He majored in mathematical statistics in 1971, and worked on and off at the Danish Institute of Educational Research.

Mounir Mesbah is Professor of Statistics at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6. Within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, he is currently teaching at the Institut de Statistique de l'Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (ISUP) and in charge of Biostatistical options.