3 papers
stat.ME2025
Identification and Scaling of Latent Variables in Ordinal Factor Analysis
Edgar C. Merkle, Sonja D. Winter, Ellen Fitzsimmons
Social science researchers are generally accustomed to treating ordinal variables as though they are continuous. In this paper, we consider how identification constraints in ordina…
stat.AP2024
Identifying good forecasters via adaptive cognitive tests
Edgar C. Merkle, Nikolay Petrov, Sophie Ma Zhu +3
Assessing forecasting performance is a time intensive activity, often requiring months or years before we know whether or not the reported forecasts were accurate. Cognitive tests…
stat.AP2018
Model Selection of Nested and Non-Nested Item Response Models using Vuong Tests
Lennart Schneider, R. Philip Chalmers, Rudolf Debelak +1
In this paper, we apply Vuong's (1989) general approach of model selection to the comparison of nested and non-nested unidimensional and multidimensional item response theory (IRT)…