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ArticleThe British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology2022

Score-based measurement invariance checks for Bayesian maximum-a-posteriori estimates in item response theory.

Rudolf Debelak, Samuel Pawel, Carolin Strobl, Edgar C Merkle

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  1. Score-based tests for parameter instability in ordinal factor models.The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology · 2025
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Rudolf DebelakDepartment of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8900-2106
Samuel PawelEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI), University of Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2779-320X
Carolin StroblDepartment of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0952-3230
Edgar C MerkleDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7158-0653

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Stiftung Suzanne und Hans Biäsch zur Förderung der Angewandten Psychologie 2018/09
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A family of score-based tests has been proposed in recent years for assessing the invariance of model parameters in several models of item response theory (IRT). These tests were originally developed in a maximum likelihood framework. This study discusses analogous tests for Bayesian maximum-a-posteriori estimates and multiple-group IRT models. We propose two families of statistical tests, which are based on an approximation using a pooled variance method, or on a simulation approach based on asymptotic results. The resulting tests were evaluated by a simulation study, which investigated their sensitivity against differential item functioning with respect to a categorical or continuous person covariate in the two- and three-parametric logistic models. Whereas the method based on pooled variance was found to be useful in practice with maximum likelihood as well as maximum-a-posteriori estimates, the simulation-based approach was found to require large sample sizes to lead to satisfactory results.

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PsychometricsBayes TheoremComputer SimulationHumansBayesian statisticsdifferential item functioningitem response theory

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PMCPMC9796736

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