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Item selection by Latent Class-based methods
Francesco Bartolucci, Giorgio E. Montanari, Silvia Pandolfi
The evaluation of nursing homes is usually based on the administration of questionnaires made of a large number of polytomous items. In such a context, the Latent Class (LC) model…
A hierarchical latent class model for predicting disability small area counts from survey data
Enrico Fabrizi, Giorgio E. Montanari, Maria Giovanna Ranalli
This article considers the estimation of the number of severely disabled people using data from the Italian survey on Health Conditions and Appeal to Medicare. Disability is indire…
An investigation of the discriminant power and dimensionality of items used for assessing health condition of elderly people
Francesco Bartolucci, Giorgio d'Agostino, Giorgio E. Montanari
With reference to the questionnaire adopted within the Italian project "Ulisse" to assess health condition of elderly people, we investigate two important issues: discriminant powe…
Latent Markov model for longitudinal binary data: An application to the performance evaluation of nursing homes
Francesco Bartolucci, Monia Lupparelli, Giorgio E. Montanari
Performance evaluation of nursing homes is usually accomplished by the repeated administration of questionnaires aimed at measuring the health status of the patients during their p…