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Raykov, Tenko; Pusic, Martin – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
This note is concerned with evaluation of location parameters for polytomous items in multiple-component measuring instruments. A point and interval estimation procedure for these parameters is outlined that is developed within the framework of latent variable modeling. The method permits educational, behavioral, biomedical, and marketing…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Computer Software, Intervals
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Penev, Spiridon; Raykov, Tenko – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2006
A linear combination of a set of measures is often sought as an overall score summarizing subject performance. The weights in this composite can be selected to maximize its reliability or to maximize its validity, and the optimal choice of weights is in general not the same for these two optimality criteria. We explore several relationships…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Reliability, Validity, Evaluation Methods