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ArticlePsychometrika2025

Item Response Models for Rating Relational Data.

Chih-Han Leng, Ulf Böckenholt, Hsuan-Wei Lee, Grace Yao

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Article in Psychometrika, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Chih-Han LengDepartment of Psychology, https://ror.org/05bqach95National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC).
Ulf BöckenholtKellogg School of Management, https://ror.org/000e0be47Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Hsuan-Wei LeeDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, https://ror.org/012afjb06Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
Grace YaoDepartment of Psychology, https://ror.org/05bqach95National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC).

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Abstract

This article introduces item response models for rating relational data. The relational data are obtained via ratings of senders and receivers in a directed network. The proposed models allow comparisons of senders and receivers on a one-dimensional latent scale while accounting for unobserved homophilic relationships. We show that the approach effectively captures reciprocity and clustering phenomena in the relational data. We estimate model parameters using a Bayesian specification and utilize Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to approximate the full conditional posterior distributions. Simulation studies demonstrate that model parameters can be recovered satisfactorily even when the dimensionality of the network is small. We also present an extensive empirical application to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed models for complete and incomplete networks.

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item response theory (IRT)latent space modelrating relational datarating scale model (RSM)social networks

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PMID40583551
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