In order measure the competitiveness of a local Health Service organisation it is necessary to analyse not only internal performance levels but also the perceived quality of the services provided and the level of customer satisfaction attained; this is directly linked to the management aspects of...

A Bayesian Network is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of variables and their probabilistic dependencies. Formally, Bayesian Networks are directed acyclic graphs whose nodes represent variables, and whose arcs encode the conditional dependencies between the variables. Nodes...

In this paper the Rasch model will be considered, a statistical tool arising from psychometric field, which allows the examination of the service quality through the known variables: for each of those an objective measure is obtained. In particular, the application of Rasch model will concern...