Browsing by Thesis Advisor "Bonifay, Wes"
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Detecting latent mean differences between non-invariant groups using ordered categorical variables
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Though more and more applied researchers have begun to treat response options as ordered-categorical variables when conducting measurement invariance ... -
Parsimonious item response theory modeling with different link functions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Traditional item response theory (IRT) models assume a symmetric error distribution and rely on symmetric (logit or probit) link functions to model the response probabilities. However, this assumption does not always hold ...