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Multivariate Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition is designed to show how a variety of statistical methods can be used to analyse data collected by psychologists and other behavioral scientists.

Demographic estimation and forecasting is an important practical problem. Population projections are used to guide billions of dollars of expenditure on things such as roads, housing, shopping complexes, and hospitals. Policy evaluations require detailed estimates of populations at risk, or of demographic outcomes such as mortality.

"It is highly recommended to researchers, academics, and practitioners working in the social and behavioural sciences. The book is a stupendous amalgamation of various esteemed researchers in the field of IRT and it would not be wrong to say that 'it is a bible of IRT'."~Ashwani KumarMishra, ISCB

Drawing on the work of 75 internationally acclaimed experts in the field, this handbook presents all major item response models, classical and modern statistical tools used in (IRT), and major areas of applications of IRT in educational and psychological testing, medical diagnosis of patient-reported outcomes, and marketing research.

Designed primarily for upper level undergraduate and graduate level students taking a course in multilevel modelling and/or statistical modelling with a large multilevel modelling component. Presents the theory and practice of major multilevel modelling techniques using Mplus as the software tool.

Drawing on the work of internationally acclaimed experts in the field, this first volume in a three-volume set presents all major item response models. It covers many model developments that have occurred in the field during the last 20 years.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to the analysis of complex sample survey data. Building on the wealth of material on practical approaches to descriptive analysis and regression modeling from the first edition, this second edition expands the topics covered and presents more examples the analysis of survey data.

This book presents a unified Bayesian approach across traditionally separate families of psychometric models. It shows that Bayesian techniques, as alternatives to conventional approaches, offer distinct and profound advantages in achieving many goals of psychometrics. The book covers foundational principles and statistical models as well as popular psychometric models. Throughout the text, procedures are illustrated using examples primarily from educational assessments. A supplementary website provides the datasets, WinBUGS code, R code, and Netica files used in the examples.

Drawing on the work of internationally acclaimed experts in the field, this second volume in a three-volume set presents classical and modern statistical tools used in item response theory (IRT).

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the three major classes of ordered regression models (cumulative, stage, and adjacent) as well as variations based on the application of the parallel regression assumption. It explores the advantages of ordered regression models over linear and binary regression models for the analysis of ordinal outcomes. The book also highlights several ways to interpret and present the results by using empirical examples from the social and behavioral sciences. Includes detailed examples and code online

This book presents an introduction to the problems and strategies for modeling age, period, and cohort (APC) effects for aggregate-level data. These strategies include constrained estimation, the use of age and/or period and/or cohort characteristics, estimable functions, variance decomposition, and a new technique called the s-constraint approach. Emphasizing both the geometry and algebra of several APC approaches, the book develops readers¿ understanding of the statistical issues of APC analysis and shows how common methods are related to each other.

International large-scale assessments (ILSAs) of educational achievement such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and the Programme for International Student Assessment are an increasingly important part of the educational research and policy landscape in the U.S. and internationally. This book will bring together recognized scholars in the field of ILSA, behavioral statistics, and policy to develop a detailed guide for ILSA users that goes beyond ILSA user manuals.

Unlike other forms of adaptive testing, multistage testing (MST) is highly suitable for testing educational achievement because it can be adapted to educational surveys and student testing. This volume provides the first unified source of information on the design, psychometrics, implementation, and operational use of MST. It shows how to apply theoretical statistical tools to testing in novel and useful ways. It also explains how to explicitly tie the assumptions made by each model to observable (or at least inferable) data conditions.

Designed for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral, social, health, and medical sciences, this text employs generalized linear models, including mixed models, for categorical and limited dependent variables. Categorical variables include both nominal and ordinal variables. Discrete or continuous limited dependent variables have restricted support, whether through censorship or truncation or by their nature. The book incorporates examples of truncated counts, censored continuous variables, and doubly bounded continuous variables, such as percentages.

Exploring the theory and applications of latent Markov modeling in a common conceptual framework, this book presents a nontechnical overview of latent Markov models and their potential in socio-economic applications. The statistical approach of the text emphasizes inference and the use of models in applications. The book first describes the latent Markov model proposed by Wiggins, taking into account other models in the field, such as latent transition analysis and hidden Markov analysis. The authors then lead readers to the possibility of implementing, using, and calibrating the latest developments. They also provide ad hoc MATLABA(R) routines for fitting the proposed models.

The third edition of this bestseller focuses more on implementation details of the procedures and less on justifying procedures. It includes new chapters on Bayesian decision theory and the practical implementation of MCMC methods using the BUGS software. It also expands the chapter on hierarchical models, presents many new applications from a variety of social science disciplines, and doubles the number of exercises. The author¿s website provides new datasets, code, and procedures for calling BUGS packages from R.

Since the development of the first intelligence test in the early 20th century, educational and psychological tests have become important measurement techniques to quantify human behavior. Focusing on this area of research, this book offers an overview and a critical survey of assorted testing theories and models used in psychology and education.

Emphasizing causation as a functional relationship between variables, this book provides comprehensive coverage on the basics of SEM. It takes readers through the process of identifying, estimating, analyzing, and evaluating a range of models.

Exploring how to use key multivariate methods in the social sciences, this book contains three chapters on regression analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation models, and multilevel models. It presents various examples of real-world applications and establishes an approach to latent variable modeling.

Offering understanding of how factor analysis works, this book discusses the assumptions underlying the equations and procedures of this method. It also explains the options in commercial computer programs for performing factor analysis and structural equation modeling.

As multiple correspondence analysis methods are capable of handling high-dimensional categorical data, they are applicable to survey research efforts in areas like the social sciences, marketing, health economics, and biomedicine. Using a practical approach, this book brings together the theory and applications of multiple correspondence analysis.