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Zhao, Xin; Coxe, Stefany; Sibley, Margaret H.; Zulauf-McCurdy, Courtney; Pettit, Jeremy W. – Prevention Science, 2023
There has been increasing interest in applying integrative data analysis (IDA) to analyze data across multiple studies to increase sample size and statistical power. Measures of a construct are frequently not consistent across studies. This article provides a tutorial on the complex decisions that occur when conducting harmonization of measures…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Sample Size, Decision Making, Test Items
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Kim, Seohyun; Lu, Zhenqiu; Cohen, Allan S. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2018
Bayesian algorithms have been used successfully in the social and behavioral sciences to analyze dichotomous data particularly with complex structural equation models. In this study, we investigate the use of the Polya-Gamma data augmentation method with Gibbs sampling to improve estimation of structural equation models with dichotomous variables.…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Structural Equation Models, Computation, Social Science Research
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Lee, HwaYoung; Beretvas, S. Natasha – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Conventional differential item functioning (DIF) detection methods (e.g., the Mantel-Haenszel test) can be used to detect DIF only across observed groups, such as gender or ethnicity. However, research has found that DIF is not typically fully explained by an observed variable. True sources of DIF may include unobserved, latent variables, such as…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Factor Structure, Bayesian Statistics, Goodness of Fit