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

DOI10.1016/J.JMP.2015.06.005MaRDI QIDQ296948zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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

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

latent variable modelsBayes factorBayesian hypothesis testingBayesian modelingIRTmeasurement invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cited in

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

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Uses Software

• WinBUGS
• IRTPRO

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