DEVELOPMENTS IN STATISTICS

By I. FIZII

CONTENTS A NONPARAMETRIC ABILITY MEASURE AN ALTERNATIVE TO CRONBACH’S ALPHA: AN L-MOMENT-BASED MEASURE OF INTERNAL-CONSISTENCY RELIABILITY USING THE TESTLET RESPONSE MODEL AS A SHORTCUT TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL ITEM RESPONSE THEORY SUBSCORE COMPUTATION ANATOMY OF PEARSON’S CHI-SQUARE STATISTIC IN THREE-WAY CONTINGENCY TABLES VISUALIZING UNCERTAINTY OF ESTIMATED RESPONSE FUNCTIONS IN NONPARAMETRIC ITEM RESPONSE THEORY BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF THE THREE-PARAMETER MULTI-UNIDIMENSIONAL MODEL THE EFFECT OF RESPONSE MODEL MISSPECI?CATION AND UNCERTAINTY ON THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF ESTIMATES A STATE SPACE APPROACH TO MODELING IRT AND POPULATION PARAMETERS FROM A LONG SERIES OF TEST ADMINISTRATIONS DETECTION OF UNUSUAL TEST ADMINISTRATIONS USING A LINEAR MIXED EFFECTS MODEL HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS AND MULTISTAGE TEST DESIGN ACHIEVING A STABLE SCALE FOR AN ASSESSMENT WITH MULTIPLE FORMS: WEIGHTING TEST SAMPLES IN IRT LINKING A MONTE CARLO APPROACH FOR NESTED MODEL COMPARISONS IN STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING POSITIVE TRAIT ITEM RESPONSE MODELS A COMPARISON OF ALGORITHMS FOR DIMENSIONALITY ANALYSIS EVALUATING CTT- AND IRT-BASED SINGLE-ADMINISTRATION ESTIMATES OF CLASSI?CATION CONSISTENCY AND ACCURACY MODELING SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT ITEMS WITH MULTIPLE DISTRACTOR DIMENSIONS THEORY DEVELOPMENT AS A PRECURSOR FOR TEST VALIDITY BAYESIAN METHODS AND MODEL SELECTION FOR LATENT GROWTH CURVE MODELS WITH MISSING DATA NOTES ON THE ESTIMATION OF ITEM RESPONSE THEORY MODELS SOME COMMENTS ON REPRESENTING CONSTRUCT LEVELS IN PSYCHOMETRIC MODELS THE COMPARISON OF TWO INPUT STATISTICS FOR HEURISTIC COGNITIVE DIAGNOSIS DOES MODEL MISSPECI?CATION LEAD TO SPURIOUS LATENT CLASSES? AN EVALUATION OF MODEL COMPARISON INDICES MODELING DIFFERENCES IN TEST-TAKING MOTIVATION: EXPLORING THE USEFULNESS OF THE MIXTURE RASCH MODEL AND PERSON-FIT STATISTICS A RECURSIVE ALGORITHM FOR IRT WEIGHTED OBSERVED SCORE EQUATING BARTLETT FACTOR SCORES: GENERAL FORMULAS AND APPLICATIONS TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS A SCALABLE EM ALGORITHM FOR HAWKES PROCESSES ESTIMATING THE LATENT TRAIT DISTRIBUTION WITH LOGLINEAR SMOOTHING MODELS FROM MODELING LONG-TERM GROWTH TO SHORT-TERM FLUCTUATIONS: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION MODELING IS THE LANGUAGE OF CHANGE EVALUATING SCALES FOR ORDINAL ASSESSMENT IN CLINICAL AND MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY DIFFERENTIATING RESPONSE STYLES AND CONSTRUCT-RELATED RESPONSES: A NEW IRT APPROACH USING BIFACTOR AND SECOND-ORDER MODELS GENDER DIF IN READING TESTS: A SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH