An Illustration of the Effects of Ignoring a Secondary Factor
Publication Date
2014
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The purpose of this brief report is to illustrate how a small proportion of items measuring a secondary factor can have a large impact on the misestimation of the a-parameters for all items. In this real dataset, when the model was specified as unidimensiona the a-parameters for the items tapping the secondary construct were overestimated and the a-parameters for the other items tended to be underestimated.
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Recommended Citation
DeMars, C. E. (2014). An illustration of the effects of ignoring a secondary factor. Applied Psychological Measurement, 38, 406-409.
