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France, Stephen L.; Batchelder, William H. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
Cultural consensus theory (CCT) is a data aggregation technique with many applications in the social and behavioral sciences. We describe the intuition and theory behind a set of CCT models for continuous type data using maximum likelihood inference methodology. We describe how bias parameters can be incorporated into these models. We introduce…
Descriptors: Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Test Items, Difficulty Level, Test Theory
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Iverson, Geoffrey J.; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan; Lee, Michael D. – Psychological Methods, 2010
The purpose of the recently proposed "p[subscript rep]" statistic is to estimate the probability of concurrence, that is, the probability that a replicate experiment yields an effect of the same sign (Killeen, 2005a). The influential journal "Psychological Science" endorses "p[subscript rep]" and recommends its use…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Evaluation Methods, Probability, Experiments
Fan, Xitao – 2001
Bootstrap analysis, both for nonparametric statistical inference and for describing sample results stability and replicability, has been gaining prominence among quantitative researchers in educational and psychological research. Procedurally, however, it is often quite a challenge for quantitative researchers to implement bootstrap analysis in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Research, Heuristics, Nonparametric Statistics