https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/nsc-663284.ht
IOI-HA response data are conventionally analysed assuming that the ordinal responses have interval-scale properties. This study critically considers this assumption and compares the conventional approach with a method using Item Response Theory (IRT). A Bayesian IRT analysis model was implemented and applied to several IOI-HA data sets. Anonymised IOI-HA responses from 13273 adult users of one or two hearing aids in 11 data sets using the Australian English, Dutch, German and Swedish versions of the IOI-HA. The raw ordinal responses