Evaluating evidence for invariant items: a Bayes factor applied to testing measurement invariance in IRT models

DOI10.1016/j.jmp.2015.06.005zbMath1359.62508OpenAlexW1160401004MaRDI QIDQ296948

Roger E. Millsap, Josine Verhagen, Jean-Paul Fox, Roy Levy

Publication date: 24 June 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2015.06.005

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes factorBayesian hypothesis testinglatent variable modelsBayesian modelingIRTmeasurement invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Bayesian inference (62F15) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

Related Items (4)

Editors' introduction to the special issue ``Bayes factors for testing hypotheses in psychological research: practical relevance and new developments ⋮ Score-based tests of differential item functioning via pairwise maximum likelihood estimation ⋮ Rejoinder: A comparison of Monte Carlo methods for computing marginal likelihoods of item response theory models ⋮ A tutorial on bridge sampling

Uses Software

• WinBUGS
• IRTPRO

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