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Bonifay, Wes; Depaoli, Sarah – Grantee Submission, 2021
Statistical analysis of categorical data often relies on multiway contingency tables; yet, as the number of categories and/or variables increases, the number of table cells with few (or zero) observations also increases. Unfortunately, sparse contingency tables invalidate the use of standard good-ness-of-fit statistics. Limited-information fit…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Models, Measurement Techniques, Item Response Theory
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Doroudi, Shayan; Brunskill, Emma – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
In this paper, we investigate two purported problems with Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT), a popular statistical model of student learning: "identifiability" and "semantic model degeneracy." In 2007, Beck and Chang stated that BKT is susceptible to an "identifiability problem"--various models with different…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Research Problems, Models, Learning
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Doroudi, Shayan; Brunskill, Emma – Grantee Submission, 2017
In this paper, we investigate two purported problems with Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT), a popular statistical model of student learning: "identifiability" and "semantic model degeneracy." In 2007, Beck and Chang stated that BKT is susceptible to an "identifiability problem"--various models with different…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Research Problems, Statistical Analysis, Models