FULL-INFORMATION ITEM BIFACTOR ANALYSIS
FULL-INFORMATION ITEM BIFACTOR ANALYSIS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02295430
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发表时间:
1992-09-01
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影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
HEDEKER, DR
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作者:
GIBBONS, RD;HEDEKER, DR
A plausible s-factor solution for many types of psychological and educational tests is one that exhibits a general factor and s - 1 group or method related factors. The bi-factor solution results from the constraint that each item has a nonzero loading on the primary dimension and at most one of the s - 1 group factors. This paper derives a bi-factor item-response model for binary response data. In marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters, the bi-factor restriction leads to a major simplification of likelihood equations and (a) permits analysis of models with large numbers of group factors; (b) permits conditional dependence within identified subsets of items; and (c) provides more parsimonious factor solutions than an unrestricted full-information item factor analysis in some cases.