Using Person Fit Statistics to Detect Outliers in Survey Research

Context: When working with health-related questionnaires, outlier detection is important. However, traditional methods of outlier detection (e.g., boxplots) can miss participants with “atypical” responses to the questions that otherwise have similar total (subscale) scores. In addition to detecting...

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Main Authors: John M. Felt, Ruben Castaneda, Jitske Tiemensma, Sarah Depaoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00863/full

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