Schuur, Wijbrandt van

Ordinal item response theory : Mokken scale analysis / Wijbrandt H. Van Schuur. - Los Angeles : SAGE, c2011. - xi, 114 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 169 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Guttman Scale Chapter 3. The Imperfect Cumulative Scale Chapter 4. Confirmation or Exploration Chapter 5. An Example of a Cumulative Scale: American Religious Beliefs Chapter 6. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Monotone Homogeneity Chapter 7. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Double Monotonicity Chapter 8. Cumulative Scaling with Polytomous Items Chapter 9. Remaining Issues REFERENCES Appendix: The null-distribution of the H-coefficient Appendix: Preventing capitalizing on chance Appendix: Calculation of Reliability.

9781412988049 (pbk.)


Social sciences--Methodology.
Social sciences--Research.

001.42 / SCH 2011