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Original

How to deal with dichotomous tests? Application of a rankit ordinal scale model with examples from the Nordic ordinal scale project on screening tests

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Pages 298-311 | Received 19 Aug 2007, Accepted 07 Oct 2007, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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