ATS-PD: An Adaptive Testing System for Psychological Disorders.

The clinical assessment of mental disorders can be a time-consuming and error-prone procedure, consisting of a sequence of diagnostic hypothesis formulation and testing aimed at restricting the set of plausible diagnoses for the patient. In this article, we propose a novel computerized system for th...

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Publicado en:Educational & Psychological Measurement Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 792 - 816
Autores principales: Donadello, Ivan, Spoto, Andrea, Sambo, Francesco, Badaloni, Silvana, Granziol, Umberto, Vidotto, Giulio
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Oct2017
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          Spoto, Andrea
          Sambo, Francesco
          Badaloni, Silvana
          Granziol, Umberto
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          Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
          University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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        Diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder
        Psychological tests
        Psychiatric diagnosis
        Algorithms
        Computer adaptive testing
        Questionnaires
        Research methodology evaluation
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