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Ordinal Item Response Theory: Mokken Scale Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Ordinal Item Response Theory Mokken Scale Analysis - Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Author:Wijbrandt H Van Schuur Measurement in the social sciences often refers to standardized answers to closed-ended questions, with such answers analyzed as if they were measurements on an interval scale. This volume presents a measurement model that maintains the ordinal aspects of the data in order to establish how well the model fits and how it measures subjects and ite... more »ms. It relaxes the most stringent assumptions from parametric item response theory, while maintaining its advantages over classical measurement methods such as reliability and factor analysis. This volume is less technical than other books on the topic and is ideal for introductory courses in social science measurement.« less