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ArticlePsychometrika2020

Extending the Basic Local Independence Model to Polytomous Data.

Luca Stefanutti, Debora de Chiusole, Pasquale Anselmi, Andrea Spoto

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Article in Psychometrika, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Luca StefanuttiDepartment of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy, and Applied Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Debora de ChiusoleDepartment of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy, and Applied Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Pasquale AnselmiDepartment of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy, and Applied Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Andrea SpotoDepartment of General Psychology, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy. andrea.spoto@unipd.it.ORCID 0000-0002-7580-544X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A probabilistic framework for the polytomous extension of knowledge space theory (KST) is proposed. It consists in a probabilistic model, called polytomous local independence model, that is developed as a generalization of the basic local independence model. The algorithms for computing "maximum likelihood" (ML) and "minimum discrepancy" (MD) estimates of the model parameters have been derived and tested in a simulation study. Results show that the algorithms differ in their capability of recovering the true parameter values. The ML algorithm correctly recovers the true values, regardless of the manipulated variables. This is not totally true for the MD algorithm. Finally, the model has been applied to a real polytomous data set collected in the area of psychological assessment. Results show that it can be successfully applied in practice, paving the way to a number of applications of KST outside the area of knowledge and learning assessment.

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AlgorithmsModels, StatisticalPsychometricsComputer SimulationKnowledgebasic local independence modelLikert scalepolytomous itemspolytomous knowledge space theoryprobabilistic structurespsychological assessment

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PMID32959202
PMCPMC7599199

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