Development of short forms for screening children’s dental caries and urgent treatment needs using item response theory and machine learning methods

• Di Xiong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5502-1464

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• Marvin Marcus,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Carl A. Maida,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Yuetong Lyu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Ron D. Hays,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6697-907X

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• Yan Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4822-6514

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• Jie Shen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Vladimir W. Spolsky,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Steve Y. Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sectopm of Interdisciplinary Dentistry, Division of Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• James J. Crall,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Honghu Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hhliu@dentistry.ucla.edu

  Affiliations Section of Public and Population Health, Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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