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ERIC Number: ED652907
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 12
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Identifying Latent Structures in Restricted Latent Class Models
Gongjun Xu; Zhuoran Shang
Grantee Submission, Journal of the American Statistical Association v113 n523 p1284-1295 2018
This article focuses on a family of restricted latent structure models with wide applications in psychological and educational assessment, where the model parameters are restricted via a latent structure matrix to reflect prespecified assumptions on the latent attributes. Such a latent matrix is often provided by experts and assumed to be correct upon construction, yet it may be subjective and misspecified. Recognizing this problem, researchers have been developing methods to estimate the matrix from data. However, the fundamental issue of the identifiability of the latent structure matrix has not been addressed until now. The first goal of this article is to establish identifiability conditions that ensure the estimability of the structure matrix. With the theoretical development, the second part of the article proposes a likelihood-based method to estimate the latent structure from the data. Simulation studies show that the proposed method outperforms the existing approaches. We further illustrate the method through a dataset in educational assessment. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED); National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305D160010; 1659328; R305D170042
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