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Huang, Francis L. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2022
The presence of clustered data is common in the sociobehavioral sciences. One approach that specifically deals with clustered data but has seen little use in education is the generalized estimating equations (GEEs) approach. We provide a background on GEEs, discuss why it is appropriate for the analysis of clustered data, and provide worked…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Computation, Correlation, Error of Measurement
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Grund, Simon; Lüdtke, Oliver; Robitzsch, Alexander – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
Multiple imputation (MI) is a popular method for handling missing data. In education research, it can be challenging to use MI because the data often have a clustered structure that need to be accommodated during MI. Although much research has considered applications of MI in hierarchical data, little is known about its use in cross-classified…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement, Computation
Shear, Benjamin R.; Reardon, Sean F. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
This article describes an extension to the use of heteroskedastic ordered probit (HETOP) models to estimate latent distributional parameters from grouped, ordered-categorical data by pooling across multiple waves of data. We illustrate the method with aggregate proficiency data reporting the number of students in schools or districts scoring in…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Computation, Regression (Statistics), Sample Size
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Barrett, Michelle D.; van der Linden, Wim J. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
Parameter linking in item response theory is generally necessary to adjust for differences between the true values for the same item and ability parameters due to the use of different identifiability restrictions in different calibrations. The research reported in this article explores a precision-weighted (PW) approach to the problem of…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Computation, Error of Measurement, Test Items
Pashley, Nicole E.; Miratrix, Luke W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
Evaluating blocked randomized experiments from a potential outcomes perspective has two primary branches of work. The first focuses on larger blocks, with multiple treatment and control units in each block. The second focuses on matched pairs, with a single treatment and control unit in each block. These literatures not only provide different…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Research Methodology, Computation
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van der Linden, Wim J.; Ren, Hao – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2020
The Bayesian way of accounting for the effects of error in the ability and item parameters in adaptive testing is through the joint posterior distribution of all parameters. An optimized Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for adaptive testing is presented, which samples this distribution in real time to score the examinee's ability and optimally…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Adaptive Testing, Error of Measurement, Markov Processes
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Vegetabile, Brian G.; Stout-Oswald, Stephanie A.; Davis, Elysia Poggi; Baram, Tallie Z.; Stern, Hal S. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
Predictability of behavior is an important characteristic in many fields including biology, medicine, marketing, and education. When a sequence of actions performed by an individual can be modeled as a stationary time-homogeneous Markov chain the predictability of the individual's behavior can be quantified by the entropy rate of the process. This…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Prediction, Behavior, Computation
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Philipp, Michel; Strobl, Carolin; de la Torre, Jimmy; Zeileis, Achim – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2018
Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are an increasingly popular method to assess mastery or nonmastery of a set of fine-grained abilities in educational or psychological assessments. Several inference techniques are available to quantify the uncertainty of model parameter estimates, to compare different versions of CDMs, or to check model…
Descriptors: Computation, Error of Measurement, Models, Cognitive Measurement
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Patton, Jeffrey M.; Cheng, Ying; Hong, Maxwell; Diao, Qi – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
In psychological and survey research, the prevalence and serious consequences of careless responses from unmotivated participants are well known. In this study, we propose to iteratively detect careless responders and cleanse the data by removing their responses. The careless responders are detected using person-fit statistics. In two simulation…
Descriptors: Test Items, Response Style (Tests), Identification, Computation
Oranje, Andreas; Kolstad, Andrew – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
The design and psychometric methodology of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is constantly evolving to meet the changing interests and demands stemming from a rapidly shifting educational landscape. NAEP has been built on strong research foundations that include conducting extensive evaluations and comparisons before new…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Psychometrics, Statistical Analysis, Computation
Qin, Xu; Hong, Guanglei – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2017
When a multisite randomized trial reveals between-site variation in program impact, methods are needed for further investigating heterogeneous mediation mechanisms across the sites. We conceptualize and identify a joint distribution of site-specific direct and indirect effects under the potential outcomes framework. A method-of-moments procedure…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Probability
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McCoach, D. Betsy; Rifenbark, Graham G.; Newton, Sarah D.; Li, Xiaoran; Kooken, Janice; Yomtov, Dani; Gambino, Anthony J.; Bellara, Aarti – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2018
This study compared five common multilevel software packages via Monte Carlo simulation: HLM 7, M"plus" 7.4, R (lme4 V1.1-12), Stata 14.1, and SAS 9.4 to determine how the programs differ in estimation accuracy and speed, as well as convergence, when modeling multiple randomly varying slopes of different magnitudes. Simulated data…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Computer Software, Comparative Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods
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Sweet, Tracy M.; Junker, Brian W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
The hierarchical network model (HNM) is a framework introduced by Sweet, Thomas, and Junker for modeling interventions and other covariate effects on ensembles of social networks, such as what would be found in randomized controlled trials in education research. In this article, we develop calculations for the power to detect an intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Networks, Statistical Analysis, Computation
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Liang, Longjuan; Browne, Michael W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2015
If standard two-parameter item response functions are employed in the analysis of a test with some newly constructed items, it can be expected that, for some items, the item response function (IRF) will not fit the data well. This lack of fit can also occur when standard IRFs are fitted to personality or psychopathology items. When investigating…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Statistical Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Bayesian Statistics
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Xi, Nuo; Browne, Michael W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
A promising "underlying bivariate normal" approach was proposed by Jöreskog and Moustaki for use in the factor analysis of ordinal data. This was a limited information approach that involved the maximization of a composite likelihood function. Its advantage over full-information maximum likelihood was that very much less computation was…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Data, Computation
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