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Longford, Nicholas T. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
A method for medical screening is adapted to differential item functioning (DIF). Its essential elements are explicit declarations of the level of DIF that is acceptable and of the loss function that quantifies the consequences of the two kinds of inappropriate classification of an item. Instead of a single level and a single function, sets of…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Bias, Simulation, Hypothesis Testing
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van Ravenzwaaij, Don; van der Maas, Han L. J.; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Psychological Review, 2012
In their influential "Psychological Review" article, Bogacz, Brown, Moehlis, Holmes, and Cohen (2006) discussed optimal decision making as accomplished by the drift diffusion model (DDM). The authors showed that neural inhibition models, such as the leaky competing accumulator model (LCA) and the feedforward inhibition model (FFI), can mimic the…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Inhibition, Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making