1. The Cognitive Assessment Screening Instrument (CASI) in a longitudinal study of elderly Seattle residents. Crane PK, van Belle G, Larson EB, Test bias in a cognitive test: differential item functioning in the CASI. Statistics in Medicine 2004; 23: 241-256.

The text of that article can be viewed here.

This analyses were presented at the 2002 Statistical Methodology in Alzheimer's Disease conference; you can view slides from that presentation here.

2. The Italian translation of the Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) in a cross-sectional study from Granarolo, Italy.  Crane PK, Gibbons L, Jolley L, van Belle G, Selleri R., De Ronchi D. Differential item bundle functioning in the Italian Mini Mental State Examination: item bias related to educational attainment in a sample with low education. Manuscript under revision.

3. The Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) in a common dataset exercise for a special issue of Medical Care (requested submission from Jeanne Teresi). Crane PK, Gibbons LE, Jolley L, van Belle G. DIF analysis with ordinal logistic regression techniques: DIFdetect. Revised manuscript submitted to Medical Care.