Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32116947›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020

Analyzing the Fit of IRT Models With the Hausman Test.

Jochen Ranger, Sören Much

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jochen RangerInstitute of Psychology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Sören MuchInstitute for Empirical Economic Research, Department of Statistics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this manuscript, the applicability of the Hausman test to the evaluation of item response models is investigated. The Hausman test is a general test of model fit. The test assesses whether for a model in question the parameter estimates of two different estimators coincide. The test can be implemented for item response models by comparing the parameter estimates of the marginal maximum likelihood estimator with the corresponding parameter estimates of a limited information estimator. For a correctly specified item response model, the difference of the two estimates is normally distributed around zero. The Hausman test can be used for the evaluation of item fit and global model fit. The performance of the test is evaluated in a simulation study. The simulation study suggests that the implemented versions of the test adhere to the nominal Type-I error rate well in samples of 1000 test takers and more. The test is also capable to detect misspecified item characteristic functions, but lacks power to detect violations of the conditional independence assumption.

Indexed as

2-PL modelHausman testitem fititem response theorymodel fit

Identifiers

PMID32116947
PMCPMC7026385

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.