TY - BOOK AU - Bech,Per TI - Clinical psychometrics SN - 9781118329788 AV - BF39 BEC PY - 2012/// PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Psychometrics KW - History KW - Psychology, Clinical KW - Instrumentation KW - Psychopharmacology KW - Psychiatry N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Classical psychometrics -- Modern psychiatry : DSM-IV/ICD-10 -- Modern dimensional psychometrics -- Modern psychometrics : item response categories and sufficient statistics -- The clinical consequences of IRT analyses : the pharmacopsychometric triangle -- The clinical consequences of IRT analyses : health-related quality of life -- The clinical consequences of IRT analyses : questionnaires as blood tests -- Summary and perspectives -- Who's carrying Einstein's baton? N2 - Clinical psychometrics is an introduction to the long-term attempt to measure the psychiatric dimension of dementia, schizophrenia, mania, depression, anxiety, neuroticism, extra version/introversion and health-related quality of life ER -