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Sinharay, Sandip – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2015
Person-fit assessment may help the researcher to obtain additional information regarding the answering behavior of persons. Although several researchers examined person fit, there is a lack of research on person-fit assessment for mixed-format tests. In this article, the lz statistic and the ?2 statistic, both of which have been used for tests…
Descriptors: Test Format, Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics
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Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Bryk, Anthony S. – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1987
Statistical methods are presented for studying "correlates of diversity," defined as characteristics of educational organizations that predict dispersion on the dependent variable. Strategies based on exact distribution theory and asymptotic normal approximation are considered. (TJH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bayesian Statistics, Estimation (Mathematics), Mathematics Achievement
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Albert, James H. – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1994
Analysis of a two-way sample of means is considered when corresponding population means are believed a priori to satisfy a partial order restriction. Simulation and the Gibbs sampler are used to summarize posterior distributions, and the posterior distribution is used to predict GPAs of first-year students at University of Iowa. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bayesian Statistics, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen