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Kim, Donghoh; Kim, Se-Kang; Park, Soyeon – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Recently, MDS has been utilized to identify and evaluate cognitive ability latent profiles in a population. However, dimension coordinates do not carry any statistical properties. To cope with statistical incompetence of MDS, we investigated the common aspects of various studies utilizing bootstrapping, and provided an R function for its…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Cognitive Ability
Monroe, Scott; Cai, Li – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2013
In Ramsay curve item response theory (RC-IRT, Woods & Thissen, 2006) modeling, the shape of the latent trait distribution is estimated simultaneously with the item parameters. In its original implementation, RC-IRT is estimated via Bock and Aitkin's (1981) EM algorithm, which yields maximum marginal likelihood estimates. This method, however,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Statistical Inference, Models