A comparison of traditional and IRT factor analysis.
This study investigated the item parameter recovery of two methods of factor analysis. The methods researched were a traditional factor analysis of tetrachoric correlation coefficients and an IRT approach to factor analysis which utilizes marginal maximum likelihood estimation using an EM algorithm...
Main Author: | Kay, Cheryl Ann |
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Other Authors: | Schumacker, Randall E. |
Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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University of North Texas
2004
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Online Access: | https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4695/ |
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