Can a computer model improve the health outcomes of an entire community? The Healthy Monadnock initiative is aiming to find out. A recent July 29 workshop featured several of Healthy Monadnock’s ...

An extension of the graded response model of Samejima (1969) for the measurement of variability and change is presented. In this model it is assumed that an occasion-specific latent variable is ...

In this paper we propose a novel approach for measuring risks when the data available is expressed on an ordinal scale. As a result we obtain a new index of risk bounded between 0 and 1, which leads ...

It is quite surprising that, while data on national economic growth is published almost annually in most countries, cautious data for the measurement of regional economic welfare is rarely available.

Long before it became common for experts on admissions to advocate that colleges look beyond grades and test scores, William E. Sedlacek was doing so. He promoted the idea of considering noncognitive ...