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Rasch fit statistics and sample size considerations for polytomous data

Adam B Smith1,2 email, Robert Rush3 email, Lesley J Fallowfield4 email, Galina Velikova1* email and Michael Sharpe5* email

Cancer Research UK – Clinical Centre, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Centre for Health & Social Care, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Centre for Integrated Health Research, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK

Psychosocial Oncology Group – Cancer Research UK, University of Sussex, UK

School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:33doi:10.1186/1471-2288-8-33

Published: 29 May 2008

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