Variable length testing using the ordinal regression model

Variable length testing using the ordinal regression model.

Health questionnaires are often built up from sets of questions that are totaled to obtain a sum score. An important consideration in designing questionnaires is to minimize respondent burden. An increasingly popular method for efficient measurement is computerized adaptive testing; unfortunately, many health questionnaires do not meet the requirements for this method. In this paper, a new sequ...

The Variable-Length Adaptive Diagnostic Testing

Testing for measurement invariance with respect to an ordinal variable.

Researchers are often interested in testing for measurement invariance with respect to an ordinal auxiliary variable such as age group, income class, or school grade. In a factor-analytic context, these tests are traditionally carried out via a likelihood ratio test statistic comparing a model where parameters differ across groups to a model where parameters are equal across groups. This test n...

Spatial Correlation Testing for Errors in Panel Data Regression Model

To investigate the spatial error correlation in panel regression models, various statistical hypothesizes and testings have been proposed. This paper, within introduction to spatial panel data regression model, existence of spatial error correlation and random effects is investigated by a joint Lagrange Multiplier test, which simultaneously tests their existence. For this purpose, joint Lagrang...

Support Vector Ordinal Regression using Privileged Information

We introduce a new methodology, called SVORIM+, for utilizing privileged information of the training examples, unavailable in the test regime, to improve generalization performance in ordinal regression. The privileged information is incorporated during the training by modelling the slacks through correcting functions for each of the parallel hyperplanes separating the ordered classes. The expe...