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Validating corruption risk measures: a key step to monitoring SDG progress
Michela Gnaldi, Simone Del Sarto
The Agenda 2030 recognises corruption as a major obstacle to sustainable development and integrates its reduction among SDG targets, in view of developing peaceful, just and strong…
Time and media-use of Italian Generation Y: dimensions of leisure preferences
Michela Gnaldi, Simone Del Sarto
Time spent in leisure is not a minor research question as it is acknowledged as a key aspect of one's quality of life. The primary aim of this article is to qualify time and Intern…
Ecological fallacy and covariates: new insights based on multilevel modelling of individual data
Michela Gnaldi, Venera Tomaselli, Antonio Forcina
This paper deals with the issue of ecological bias in ecological inference. We provide an explicit formulation of the conditions required for the ordinary ecological regression to…
A multilevel finite mixture item response model to cluster examinees and schools
Michela Gnaldi, Silvia Bacci, Francesco Bartolucci
Within the educational context, a key goal is to assess students acquired skills and to cluster students according to their ability level. In this regard, a relevant element to be…
Joint Assessment of the Differential Item Functioning and Latent Trait Dimensionality of Students' National Tests
Michela Gnaldi, Francesco Bartolucci, Silvia Bacci
Within the educational context, students' assessment tests are routinely validated through Item Response Theory (IRT) models which assume unidimensionality and absence of Different…
MultiLCIRT: An R package for multidimensional latent class item response models
Francesco Bartolucci, Silvia Bacci, Michela Gnaldi
We illustrate a class of Item Response Theory (IRT) models for binary and ordinal polythomous items and we describe an R package for dealing with these models, which is named Multi…