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Si, Yajuan; Reiter, Jerome P. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
In many surveys, the data comprise a large number of categorical variables that suffer from item nonresponse. Standard methods for multiple imputation, like log-linear models or sequential regression imputation, can fail to capture complex dependencies and can be difficult to implement effectively in high dimensions. We present a fully Bayesian,…
Descriptors: Nonparametric Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Measurement, Evaluation Methods
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Schweig, Jonathan – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
Measures of classroom environments have become central to policy efforts that assess school and teacher quality. This has sparked a wide interest in using multilevel factor analysis to test measurement hypotheses about classroom-level variables. One approach partitions the total covariance matrix and tests models separately on the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Robustness (Statistics), Measurement, Classroom Environment