scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Hyperbolic Cosine Latent Trait Models for Unfolding Direct Responses and Pairwise Preferences

David Andrich
- 01 Sep 1995 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 3, pp 269-290
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the hyperbolic cosine unfolding model for direct responses of persons to individual stimuli is elabo rated in three ways: the parameter of the stimu lus, which reflects a region within which people located there are more likely to respond positively than negatively, is shown to be a property of the data and not arbitrary as first supposed.
Abstract
The hyperbolic cosine unfolding model for direct responses of persons to individual stimuli is elabo rated in three ways. First, the parameter of the stimu lus, which reflects a region within which people located there are more likely to respond positively than negatively, is shown to be a property of the data and not arbitrary as first supposed. Second, the model is used to construct a related model for pairwise preferences. This model, for which joint maximum likelihood estimates are derived, satisfies strong sto chastic transitivity. Third, the role of substantive theory in evaluating the fit between the data and the models, in which unique solutions for the estimates are not guaranteed, is explored by analyzing responses of one group of persons to a single set of stimuli obtained both as direct responses and pairwise preferences.

read more

Citations
More filters
Book

Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting

TL;DR: In this article, a simple geometric model of voting is presented to analyze parliamentary roll call data, where each voter is represented by one point and each roll call by two points that correspond to the policy consequences of voting Yea or Nay.
Journal ArticleDOI

Nonparametric Unfolding of Binary Choice Data

Keith T. Poole
- 23 Mar 2000 - 
TL;DR: A general nonparametric unfolding technique for maximizing the correct classification of binary choice or two-category data and one aspect of the scaling method greatly improves Manski's “maximum score estimator” technique for estimating limited dependent variable models.
Journal ArticleDOI

An IRT Approach to Constructing and Scoring Pairwise Preference Items Involving Stimuli on Different Dimensions: The Multi-Unidimensional Pairwise-Preference Model

TL;DR: In this article, an item response theory (IRT) approach is proposed to construct and score multidimensional pairwise preference items using Monte Carlo simulations. But the results show that the MUPP approach to test construction and scoring provides accurate parameter recovery in both one-and two-dimensional simulations, even with relatively few (say, 15%) unidimensional pairs.
Journal ArticleDOI

Adaptive Testing With Multidimensional Pairwise Preference Items Improving the Efficiency of Personality and Other Noncognitive Assessments

TL;DR: In this article, the assessment of noncognitive constructs in organizational research and practice is challenging because of response biases that can distort test scores and researchers must also deal with time constraint.
Journal ArticleDOI

Was ist aus dem Rasch-Modell geworden?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that das Rasch-Mestheorie heraus gar nicht als Konkurrent, sondern als komplementares Modell zur klassischen Testtheorie zu verstehen ist.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

A law of comparative judgment

TL;DR: The law of comparative judgment as mentioned in this paper is applicable not only to the comparison of physical stimulus intensities but also to qualitative comparative judgments such as those of excellence of specimens in an educational scale.
Journal ArticleDOI

A rating formulation for ordered response categories

TL;DR: In this paper, a rating response mechanism for ordered categories, which is related to the traditional threshold formulation but distinctively different from it, is formulated, in which subject and item parameters are derived in terms of thresholds on a latent continuum and discriminations at the thresholds.
Book

Individual Choice Behavior