Statistical analysis of questionnaires : A unified approach based on R and Stata /: A unified approach based on R and Stata. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francesco Bartolucci, Silvia Bacci, Michela Gnaldi.
• Authors: Bartolucci, Francesco; Bacci, Silvia; Gnaldi, Michela
• Contents: Preliminaries; Introduction; Psychological Attributes as Latent Variables; Challenges in the Measurement of Latent Constructs; What Is a Questionnaire?; Main Steps in Questionnaire Construction; What Is Psychometric Theory?; Notation; Datasets Used for Examples Classical Test Theory; Introduction; Foundation; Models; Conceptual Approaches of Reliability; Reliability of Parallel and Nonparallel Tests; Procedures for Estimating Reliability; True Score Estimation; Item Analysis; Validity; Test Bias; Generalizability Theory; Examples Item Response Theory Models for Dichotomous Items; Introduction; Model Assumptions; Rasch Model; 2PL Model; 3PL Model; Random-Effects Approach; Summary about Model Estimation; Examples Item Response Theory Models for Polytomous Items; Introduction; Model Assumptions; Taxonomy of Models for Polytomous Responses ; Models for Ordinal Responses; Models for Nominal Responses; Examples Estimation Methods and Diagnostics; Introduction; Joint Maximum Likelihood Method; Conditional Maximum Likelihood Method; Marginal Maximum Likelihood Method; Estimation of Models for Polytomous Items; Graphical Diagnostic Tools; Goodness-of-Fit ; Infit and Outfit Statistics; Differential Item Functioning; Examples; Appendix Some Extensions of Traditional Item Response Theory Models; Introduction; Models with Covariates; Models for Clustered and Longitudinal Data; Multidimensional Models; Structural Equation Modeling Setting; Examples Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 300.727; Social surveys -- Methodology; Questionnaires; R (Computer program language)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466568501
• Related ISBNs: 9781466568495
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