The 6 pain items indicate that least and most pain items behaved as expected; with the remainder of items falling in a moderate range.
Psychometric analyses found the EPBD items to behave as expected, for example, item-level means for subjects with severe endometriosis symptoms were higher (i.e., worse) compared with subjects with mild symptoms.
Some favour the single parameter Rasch model as they believe it adheres to the fundamental measurement principle that all items behave in the same way (i.e. the data must fit the model) [ 47].
The site performs and behaves as before".
The first column behaves as expected.
Homicidal boys behaved as antisocially as the homicidal adults.
The factor analysis included all subscale items except the importance item from each subscale, as we found these items behaved differently.
This was tried, but the items behaved very differently.
However, the fact that the CAGE items behaved rather differently in their relationship with spousal mental distress after adjusting for alcohol consumption justifies the usage of each item as a single predictor.
Furthermore, these items behaved well otherwise and their removal did not result in unequivocal scale improvements.
