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Yavuz, Guler; Hambleton, Ronald K. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
Application of MIRT modeling procedures is dependent on the quality of parameter estimates provided by the estimation software and techniques used. This study investigated model parameter recovery of two popular MIRT packages, BMIRT and flexMIRT, under some common measurement conditions. These packages were specifically selected to investigate the…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software
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McNeish, Daniel M. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
Mixed-effects models (MEMs) and latent growth models (LGMs) are often considered interchangeable save the discipline-specific nomenclature. Software implementations of these models, however, are not interchangeable, particularly with small sample sizes. Restricted maximum likelihood estimation that mitigates small sample bias in MEMs has not been…
Descriptors: Models, Statistical Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Sample Size