A Non-Parametric Approach to Scale Reduction for Uni-Dimensional Screening Scales
A Non-Parametric Approach to Scale Reduction for Uni-Dimensional Screening Scales
To select items from a uni-dimensional scale to create a reduced scale for disease screening, Liu and Jin (2007) developed a non-parametric method based on binary risk classification. When the measure for the risk of a disease is ordinal or quantitative, and possibly subject to random censoring, this method is …