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Modernising measurement in psychiatry: item banks and computerised adaptive testing
Jan Stochl1, Tamsin Ford2, Jesus Perez3
1Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Herschel Smith Building for Brain & Mind Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK; Applied Research Collaboration East of England, National Institute for Health Research, Cambridge, UK; Department of Kinanthropology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia.
The Lancet. Psychiatry
|February 20, 2021
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