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Measurement as Communication

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In order to set the stage for understanding communimetrics as a theory of measurement it is important to set the context based on current theories of measurement, of which there are two primary conceptual models—psychometric theories and clinimetric theories. Psychometric theory has two competing approaches within its general framework—classical test theory and item response theory (IRT). The following describes the basic tenets of each of these approaches.

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  1. Endowed Chair of Child and Youth Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa and the Children‗s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

    John S. Lyons

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Lyons, J.S. (2009). Measurement as Communication. In: Communimetrics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92822-7_2

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