Factor tree copula models for item response data

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2201.00339zbMATH Open1522.62306arXiv2201.00339MaRDI QIDQ72193FDOQ72193

Authors: Sayed H. Kadhem, Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos, Sayed H. Kadhem, Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos 

Publication date: 2 January 2022

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Factor copula models for item response data are more interpretable and fit better than (truncated) vine copula models when dependence can be explained through latent variables, but are not robust to violations of conditional independence. To circumvent these issues, truncated vines and factor copula models for item response data are joined to define a combined model, the so-called factor tree copula model, with individual benefits from each of the two approaches. Rather than adding factors and causing computational problems and difficulties in interpretation and identification, a truncated vine structure is assumed on the residuals conditional on one or two latent variables. This structure can be better explained as a conditional dependence given a few interpretable latent variables. On the one hand, the parsimonious feature of factor models remains intact and any residual dependencies are being taken into account on the other. We discuss estimation along with model selection. In particular, we propose model selection algorithms to choose a plausible factor tree copula model to capture the (residual) dependencies among the item responses. Our general methodology is demonstrated with an extensive simulation study and illustrated by analyzing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00339

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zbMATH Keywords

conditional dependencefactor copula modelslatent variable modelstruncated vine copula models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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