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Item response theory and the measurement of deprivation: Evidence from PSELL-3
Raileanu Szeles, Monica; Fusco, Alessio - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009
Item Response Theory (IRT) has recently been proposed as a framework to measure deprivation. It allows deriving a … latent measure of deprivation from a set of dichotomous observed items of deprivation and analyzing determinants of … deprivation. We investigate further the use of IRT models in the field of deprivation measurement. Firstly, the paper emphasizes …
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Relevance and advantages of using the item response theory
Bortolotti, Silvana; Tezza, Rafael; Andrade, Dalton; … - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 4, pp. 2341-2360
The item response theory (IRT) also known as latent trait theory, is used for the development, evaluation and administration of standardized measurements; it is widely used in the areas of psychology and education. This theory was developed and expanded for over 50 years and has contributed to...
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Measuring and detecting situations of need and deprivation using Graded Response models
Corsini, Lorenzo; Martelli, Irene - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 15, pp. 1289-1294
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Absorptive capacity dimensions and the measurement of cumulativeness
Knoppen, Desirée; Saris, Willem E.; Moncagatta, Paolo - In: Journal of business research : JBR 139 (2022), pp. 312-324
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Testing relationships among variables measuring credit management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Drever, Margaret Frances; Armstrong, D Bruce - 2005
Small business failure has been the subject of considerable research effort (Beaver, 1966: Berryman, 1983: Holmes, 1988: Bickerdyke, 2000). Peel and Wilson (1996) found that there was a substantial amount of both theoretical and empirical small business research relating to credit management and...
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Financial capital measure with item response theory : a didactic approximation
Rangel Quiñonez, Henry Sebastián; Montenegro Díaz, … - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 10 (2022) 1, pp. 65-80
Objective: The objective of the article is to present in a didactic and concise way the fundamental concepts of item response theory (IRT) and its possible application in the economic sciences and show the bias problem that occurred when estimating a latent variable such as financial capital in...
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IRT modeling in the presence of zero-inflation with application to psychiatric disorder severity
Wall, Melanie M; Park, Jung Yeon; Moustaki, Irini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
IRT has been increasingly utilized in psychiatry for the purpose of describing the relationship among items in psychiatric disorder symptom batteries hypothesized to be indicators of an underlying latent continuous representing the severity of the psychiatric disorder. It is common to find...
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Parameter estimation in latent trait models
Rigdon, Steven; Tsutakawa, Robert - In: Psychometrika 48 (1983) 4, pp. 567-574
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A method of estimating item characteristic functions using the maximum likelihood estimate of ability
Samejima, Fumiko - In: Psychometrika 42 (1977) 2, pp. 163-191
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The essential process in a family of measurement models
Masters, Geofferey; Wright, Benjamin - In: Psychometrika 49 (1984) 4, pp. 529-544
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