Reply: The Rasch model: "Litmus Test" de rigueur for rating scales?

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¹ Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, United Kingdom (Cano) McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Klassen) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y. (Scott, Cordeiro, Pusic).

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Stefan J Cano et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 Feb.

. 2013 Feb;131(2):286e-288e.

doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31828129f4.

¹ Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, United Kingdom (Cano) McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Klassen) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y. (Scott, Cordeiro, Pusic).

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The BREAST-Q: further validation in independent clinical samples.
Cano SJ, Klassen AF, Scott AM, Cordeiro PG, Pusic AL. Cano SJ, et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Feb;129(2):293-302. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31823aec6b. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012. PMID: 22286412
The Rasch Model: "Litmus Test" de rigueur for rating scales?
Otiv S. Otiv S. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 Feb;131(2):283e-286e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318278d5ac. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013. PMID: 23358031 No abstract available.

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