A Collection of Numerical Recipes Useful for Building Scalable Psychometric Applications. (February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Doran, Harold
• Is Part Of: Journal of educational and behavioral statistics. Volume 48:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 37
• Page End: 69
• Publication Date: 2023-02
• Subjects: computational psychometrics -- Gaussian quadrature -- linear models; numerical analysis -- psychometric data scientist; Educational statistics -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Periodicals; 370.2
• DOI: 10.3102/10769986221116905
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1076-9986

Abstract

This article is concerned with a subset of numerically stable and scalable algorithms useful to support computationally complex psychometric models in the era of machine learning and massive data. The subset selected here is a core set of numerical methods that should be familiar to computational psychometricians and considers whitening transforms for dealing with correlated data, computational concepts for linear models, multivariable integration, and optimization techniques.