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Edgar C. Merkle; Oludare Ariyo; Sonja D. Winter; Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal – Grantee Submission, 2023
We review common situations in Bayesian latent variable models where the prior distribution that a researcher specifies differs from the prior distribution used during estimation. These situations can arise from the positive definite requirement on correlation matrices, from sign indeterminacy of factor loadings, and from order constraints on…
Descriptors: Models, Bayesian Statistics, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
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Weicong Lyu; Chun Wang; Gongjun Xu – Grantee Submission, 2024
Data harmonization is an emerging approach to strategically combining data from multiple independent studies, enabling addressing new research questions that are not answerable by a single contributing study. A fundamental psychometric challenge for data harmonization is to create commensurate measures for the constructs of interest across…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Test Items, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
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Chenchen Ma; Jing Ouyang; Chun Wang; Gongjun Xu – Grantee Submission, 2024
Survey instruments and assessments are frequently used in many domains of social science. When the constructs that these assessments try to measure become multifaceted, multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) provides a unified framework and convenient statistical tool for item analysis, calibration, and scoring. However, the computational…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Item Response Theory, Scoring, Accuracy
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Chengyu Cui; Chun Wang; Gongjun Xu – Grantee Submission, 2024
Multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models have generated increasing interest in the psychometrics literature. Efficient approaches for estimating MIRT models with dichotomous responses have been developed, but constructing an equally efficient and robust algorithm for polytomous models has received limited attention. To address this gap,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Accuracy, Simulation, Psychometrics