New Developments in Psychometrics: Proceedings of the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society Imps2001. Osaka, Japan, July 15-19, 2001

ISBN-13: 9784431669982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 702 str.

Haruo Yanai; Akinori Okada; Kazuo Shigemasu

Opis

At the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Osaka, Japan, more than 300 participants from 19 countries gathered to discuss recent developments in the theory and application of psychometrics. This volume of proceedings includes papers on methods of psychometrics such as the structural equation model and item response theory. The book is in eight major sections: keynote speeches and invited lectures; structural equation modeling and factor analysis; IRT and adaptive testing; multivariate statistical methods; scaling; classification methods; and independent and principal component analysis. The 80 papers collected here provide a valuable source of information for all who are concerned with psychometrics, mathematical and statistical applications, and data analysis in psychological and behavioral sciences.

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Psychometric Engineering as Art: Variations on a Theme.- Vectors and Matrices in Psychometrics with Special Emphasis on Generalized Inverse and Projection Matrices.- Early Statistical Modelling of Latent Quantities: The History of Distance Measurement by Triangulation.- Relationships among Various Kinds of Eigenvalue and Singular Value Decompositions.- Power of ?2Goodness-of-fit Tests in Structural Equation Models: the Case of Non-Normal Data.- The Respondent-Generated Intervals Approach to Sample Surveys: From Theory to Experiment.- Student Profile Scoring Methods for Informative Assessmen.- The Determinants of the Bias in Minimum Rank Factor Analysis (MRFA).- A Note on the Approximate Distributions of Fit Indexes for Misspecified Structural Equation Models.- Longitudinal Study of Early Chinese Linguistics Growth: Revealing Sequential Relations of Linguistic Antecedents and Consequences.- Some Cautionary Notes on Factor Loadings Estimated by Principal Component Analysis.- Simultaneous Mean and Covariance Structure Analysis for Two Level Structural Equation Models on EQS.- On Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Equation Models.- Use of SEM Programs to Precisely Measure Scale Reliability.- Estimating the Statistical Power in Small Samples by Empirical Distributions.- Language Selection and Social Structure Transition in Ukraine from 1959 to 1989.- Identifying Influential Observations for Loadings in Factor Analysis.- Effects of Self-disclosure and Self-preoccupation on Depression.- Developments in Practical Nonparametric IRT Scale Analysis.- Groups of Persons and Groups of Items in Nonparametric Item Response Theory.- Bias of Ability Estimates Using Warm’s Weighted Likelihood Estimator (WLE) in the Generalized Partial Credit Model (GPCM).- Item Selection in Polytomous CAT.- Bayesian Checks on Outlying Response Times in Computerized Adaptive Testing.- Construct Comparability in International Assessments: Comparability of English and French Versions of TIMSS.- Are the Japanese More Depressed than the U.S. Individuals? — An IRT DIF Study.- General and Specific Misfit of Nonparametric IRT-models.- Application of IRT in Assessment of Chewing Ability..- The Effects of the Temporal Structure and the Presentation Modality on English Listening Comprehension Test.- Estimating Testing Time Extension Ratios for Students with Disabilities from Item Cumulative Curves.- The Effect of Clustered Objective Probability Scoring with Truncation (T-COPS) on Reliability.- A Framework for Reusing Assessment Components.- Investigating the Local Fit of Item-score Vectors.- Developing a Domain-referenced Test Given a Selection Ratio and a Cut-off Score: An Application of Item Response Theory.- Investigating,Cross-cultural Differences in Crying Using Manifest Invariant Item Ordering.- Bayesian Regressions for Cross-validation: An Application.- Validity and Truth.- The Hierarchical Theory of Justification and Statistical Model Selection.- Robust Designs for Longitudinal Mixed Effects Models.- On Conditional Distribution of Sliced Inverse Regression Model.- Uniqueness Properties of Three-way Component Models with Offset Terms.- An Assessment of Non-monotonicity of Missing-data Patterns for Incomplete Multivariate Data.- A Unified Approach to Oblique Procrustes Problems.- Automatic Generation of Intervention Effect Estimation Formula.- An Investigation of Bayes Estimation Procedures for the Two-parameter Logistic Model.- Coping Strategies as Predictors of Psychological Distress among Employees in Japan.- Estimating Mediated Effects with Survival Data.- A Backward Induction Computational Procedure to Sequential Mastery Testing.- Bayes and Generalized Bayes Tests for Tree Ordered Normal Means.- Model Selection Criteria for Growth Curve Model with Hierachical Within-Individual Design Matrices.- Pooling Component Means: Making Sense or Folly.- Geometric Perspectives of Dual Scaling for Assessment of Information in Data.- Factors which Influence Disclosure about Human Resources. An International Comparison Based on Disclosure Issued in Form 20-F and Annual Reports.- An Application of Rotation in Correspondence Analysis.- Complex Difference System Models for the Analysis of Asymmetry..- A Distance Representation of the Quasi-symmetry Model and Related Distance Models.- Two-mode Three-way Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling with Different Directions of Asymmetry for Different Sources.- A Latent Variable Model for Multidimensional Unfolding.- Monte Carlo Simulation in Three-way Unfolding: Assessing the Combined Effect of Sparseness and Variation of the Cell Frequencies.- On Thurstone’s Model for Paired Comparisons and Ranking Data.- Two Kinds of Space in Psychophysics.- A Variable Variance Model: A Critical Formulation of Fechner’s Problem.- An Application of a Multiplicative Utility for Non-commutative Joint Receipts to Portfolio Choice.- Multidimensional Scaling of Computer-generated Abstract Forms.- Time Allocation Modeling for Weekend Travel in Tokyo, Using Combined Utility Maximization and Activity Choice Approaches.- Cluster Instability as a Result of Data Input Order..- A Connectionist Model of Phonological Working Memory.- Brain Mapping Data: Classification, Principal Components and Multidimensional Scaling.- Human Decision Making Model by Boolean Approach and Fuzzy Reasoning.- A New Model of Rating Scale Method Considering Context Effects Based on Fuzzy Logic and its Application for a Psychological Response to the Acoustic Noise.- Subtype Classification of Social Anxiety in Japanese Undergraduates.- Another Aspect of Psychometrics; Survey Meta-data Description by XML.- Some Alternative Clustering Methods for Mokken Scale Analysis.- Knowledge-based Cascade-correlation: Varying the Size and Shape of Relevant Prior Knowledge.- A PCA for Interval-valued Data Based on Midpoints and Radii.- Independent Component Analysis for Non-normal Factor Analysis.- Self-Organizing Method for Robust Blind Source Separation by ?-Divergence.- Examination of Independence in Independent Component Analysis.- Neural Coding by Temporal and Spatial Correlations.- Asymptotic Distributions and Confidence Intervals of Component Loading in Principal Component Analysis.- Text Segmentation by Latent Semantic Indexing.- Contributors.- Keyword Index.