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Clemens Draxler; Andreas Kurz; Can Gürer; Jan Philipp Nolte – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
A modified and improved inductive inferential approach to evaluate item discriminations in a conditional maximum likelihood and Rasch modeling framework is suggested. The new approach involves the derivation of four hypothesis tests. It implies a linear restriction of the assumed set of probability distributions in the classical approach that…
Descriptors: Inferences, Test Items, Item Analysis, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
Lu, Jiannan; Ding, Peng; Dasgupta, Tirthankar – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2018
Assessing the causal effects of interventions on ordinal outcomes is an important objective of many educational and behavioral studies. Under the potential outcomes framework, we can define causal effects as comparisons between the potential outcomes under treatment and control. However, unfortunately, the average causal effect, often the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Mathematical Applications, Probability, Behavioral Science Research
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Cohen, Michael P. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2000
Compares the odds ratio with the probability ratio (relative risk). These quantities arise, for example, in the analysis of educational and social science through logistic regression. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Probability, Regression (Statistics), Research Methodology