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Measuring Student Ability, Classifying Schools, and Detecting Item Bias at School Level, Based on Student-Level Dichotomous Items

Bennink, Margot; Croon, Marcel A.; Keuning, Jos; … - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 39 (2014) 3, pp. 180-202

In educational measurement, responses of students on items are used not only to measure the ability of students, but also to evaluate and compare the performance of schools. Analysis should ideally account for the multilevel structure of the data, and school-level processes not related to...

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On the (im-)possibility of deriving transport policy implications from hybrid choice models

Chorus, Caspar G.; Kroesen, Maarten - In: Transport Policy 36 (2014) C, pp. 217-222

the derivation of policies that aim to change travel behavior by means of changing the value of a latent variable. An … example of such a policy is a marketing campaign which aims to influence the latent variable ‘perceived quality of public … factors: (i) the latent variable is usually to a non-trivial extent endogenous to the travel choice, precluding inference of …

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A new approach to Bayesian hypothesis testing

Li, Yong; Zeng, Tao; Yu, Jun - In: Journal of Econometrics 178 (2014) P3, pp. 602-612

In this paper a new Bayesian approach is proposed to test a point null hypothesis based on the deviance in a decision-theoretical framework. The proposed test statistic may be regarded as the Bayesian version of the likelihood ratio test and appeals in practical applications with three desirable...

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Correcting for Test Score Measurement Error in ANCOVA Models for Estimating Treatment Effects

Lockwood, J. R.; McCaffrey, Daniel F. - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 39 (2014) 1, pp. 22-52

A common strategy for estimating treatment effects in observational studies using individual student-level data is analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) or hierarchical variants of it, in which outcomes (often standardized test scores) are regressed on pretreatment test scores, other student...

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A Bayesian Chi-Squared Test for Hypothesis Testing

Li, Yong; Liu, Xiao-Bin; Yu, Jun - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2014

A new Bayesian test statistic is proposed to test a point null hypothesis based on a quadratic loss. The proposed test statistic may be regarded as the Bayesian version of Lagrange multiplier test. Its asymptotic distribution is obtained based on a set of regular conditions and follows a...

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Efficient importance sampling in mixture frameworks

Kleppe, Tore Selland; Liesenfeld, Roman - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 76 (2014) C, pp. 449-463

A flexible importance sampling procedure for the likelihood evaluation of dynamic latent variable models involving …

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Values, attitudes and travel behavior: a hierarchical latent variable mixed logit model of travel mode choice

Paulssen, Marcel; Temme, Dirk; Vij, Akshay; Walker, Joan - In: Transportation 41 (2014) 4, pp. 873-888

519 German commuters drawn from a consumer panel, the study estimates an integrated choice and latent variable model of …

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Why do passengers choose a specific car of a metro train during the morning peak hours?

Kim, Hyunmi; Kwon, Sohee; Wu, Seung Kook; Sohn, Keemin - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 61 (2014) C, pp. 249-258

Crowding on metro trains is an important measure of passenger satisfaction and also provides a criterion for determining service frequency and the number of cars necessary for a train set. Particularly in metropolitan areas during morning peak hours, many studies have revealed a considerable...

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A Unified Framework for the Comparison of Treatments with Ordinal Responses

Lu, Tong-Yu; Poon, Wai-Yin; Cheung, Siu - In: Psychometrika 79 (2014) 4, pp. 605-620

Different latent variable models have been used to analyze ordinal categorical data which can be conceptualized as … manifestations of an unobserved continuous variable. In this paper, we propose a unified framework based on a general latent variable … model for the comparison of treatments with ordinal responses. The latent variable model is built upon the location …

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Using latent variable approach to estimate China׳s economy-wide energy rebound effect over 1954–2010

Shao, Shuai; Huang, Tao; Yang, Lili - In: Energy Policy 72 (2014) C, pp. 235-248

using the estimation model and latent variable approach, which is achieved through a time-varying coefficient state space …

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