A Mixture IRT Analysis of Risky Youth Behavior

The study reported in this manuscript used a mixture item response model with data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2009 (N = 16,410) to identify subtypes of adolescents at-risk for engaging in unhealthy behaviors, and to find individual survey items that were most effective at identifying such s...

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Main Authors: Holmes eFinch, Eric ePierson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00098/full