Latent ignorability and item selection for nursing home case-mix evaluation

DOI10.1007/s00357-017-9227-9zbMath1391.62200OpenAlexW2597729223MaRDI QIDQ724611

Giorgio E. Montanari, Francesco Bartolucci, Silvia Pandolfi

Publication date: 26 July 2018

Published in: Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00357-017-9227-9

zbMATH Keywords

expectation-maximization algorithmpolytomous itemsmissing responsesquality-of-lifeULISSE project

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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