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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300140003321

Autore

Mair Patrick

Titolo

Modern Psychometrics with R / / by Patrick Mair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-93177-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 458 p. 155 illus., 96 illus. in color.)

Collana

Use R!, , 2197-5736

Disciplina

150.28553

Soggetti

Statistics

Psychometrics

Psychology—Methodology

R (Computer program language)

Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

Psychological Methods/Evaluation

Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Classical Test Theory.-Factor Analysis -- Path Analysis and Structural Equation Models -- Item Response Theory -- Preference Modeling -- Principal Component Analysis and Extensions -- Correspondence Analysis -- Gifi Methods -- Multidimensional Scaling -- Biplots -- Networks -- Parametric Cluster Analysis and Mixture Regression -- Modeling Trajectories and Time Series -- Analysis of fMRI Data.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook describes the broadening methodology spectrum of psychological measurement in order to meet the statistical needs of a modern psychologist. The way statistics is used, and maybe even perceived, in psychology has drastically changed over the last few years; computationally as well as methodologically. R has taken the field of psychology by storm, to the point that it can now safely be considered the lingua franca for statistical data analysis in psychology. The goal of this book is to give the reader a starting point when analyzing data using a particular method, including advanced versions, and to hopefully motivate him or her to delve deeper into additional literature on the method. Beginning with one of the oldest



psychometric model formulations, the true score model, Mair devotes the early chapters to exploring confirmatory factor analysis, modern test theory, and a sequence of multivariate exploratory method. Subsequent chapters present special techniques useful for modern psychological applications including correlation networks, sophisticated parametric clustering techniques, longitudinal measurements on a single participant, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. In addition to using real-life data sets to demonstrate each method, the book also reports each method in three parts-- first describing when and why to apply it, then how to compute the method in R, and finally how to present, visualize, and interpret the results. Requiring a basic knowledge of statistical methods and R software, but written in a casual tone, this text is ideal for graduate students in psychology. Relevant courses include methods of scaling, latent variable modeling, psychometrics for graduate students in Psychology, and multivariate methods in the social sciences.