Harmonizing measurements: establishing a common metric via shared items across instruments
The use of equate clusters is an intuitive and flexible way to establish a common metric across instruments and facilitates the transformation of measurements obtained to a standardized scale. Standardizing instrument scores to a common metric allows for population-level comparisons on a global scale.
Authors
- Ann M. Weber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8130-5858)
- Stef van Buuren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1098-2119)
- Iris Eekhout (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0030-1458)
Institutions
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (NL)
- Utrecht University (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Population Health Metrics
- Published
- 2024-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-024-00351-z
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.35
Funders
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Inter-American Development Bank
- University College London