Using Diagnostic Classification Models in Psychological Rating Scales

A note on relevance of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry

In the clinical practice of psychology and psychiatry, presence or absence of particular disorder or syndromes is based on the subjective interpretation of mental and behavioral descriptions offered by the patient. This is often done by questionnaires (also called instruments or scales) or by interviews. This subjectivity of the diagnostic decision-making process may limit the reliability of di...

Models for the Adjustment of Rating Scales

In a category rating experiment using a graded series of squares we changed both stimulus range and frequency during the experimental session. Range-frequency theory (Parducci, 1965; Parducci & Perrett, 1971; Parducci & Wedell, 1986) predicts the same rate of adjustment to the new stimulus range and to the new stimulus frequencies. Its closest competitor, consistency theory (Haubensak, 1992a, 1...

Corporate Credit Rating using Multiclass Classification Models with order Information

Corporate credit rating prediction using statistical and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques has been one of the attractive research topics in the literature. In recent years, multiclass classification models such as artificial neural network (ANN) or multiclass support vector machine (MSVM) have become a very appealing machine learning approaches due to their good performance. However, mos...

Using pain-rating scales with older adults.

On-line performance assessment using rating scales.

The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the on-line performance assessment instrument--the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). Issues that will be addressed in the paper include: (a) the establishment of the scoring rubric and its implementation in an extended Rasch model, (b) training of raters, (c) validation of the scoring rubric and procedures for monitoring ...