Open AccessPast and present issues in Rasch analysis: The Functional Independence Measure (FIMâ„¢) revisited
Author(s) -
Åsa Nilsson,
Alan Tennant
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of rehabilitation medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1651-2081
pISSN - 1650-1977
DOI - 10.2340/16501977-0871
Subject(s) - rasch model , polytomous rasch model , functional independence measure , rating scale , rehabilitation , psychology , dependency (uml) , item response theory , scale (ratio) , independence (probability theory) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychometrics , cognitive psychology , econometrics , clinical psychology , computer science , statistics , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , medicine , mathematics , geography , neuroscience , cartography
To review the development of Rasch analysis by examining the history of its application to the Functional Independence Measure (FIMTM), and highlighting current issues in the approach.