Research Article
Supplied Food Consistency and Oral Functions of Institutionalized Elderly
Figure 1
Item response curves and item information curves of the oral function tests. By the three-parameter logistic model, item response curves and item information curves were described. Tongue pressure and swallowing functions had high discrimination ability. Tongue and labium functions were almost flat around the 1.0 of the Y-axis.
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