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Moustaki, Irini; Joreskog, Karl G.; Mavridis, Dimitris – Structural Equation Modeling, 2004
We consider a general type of model for analyzing ordinal variables with covariate effects and 2 approaches for analyzing data for such models, the item response theory (IRT) approach and the PRELIS-LISREL (PLA) approach. We compare these 2 approaches on the basis of 2 examples, 1 involving only covariate effects directly on the ordinal variables…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Comparative Analysis, Factor Analysis