Psychometric and Machine Learning Approaches to Diagnostic Classification
abstract: The goal of diagnostic assessment is to discriminate between groups. In many cases, a binary decision is made conditional on a cut score from a continuous scale. Psychometric methods can improve assessment by modeling a latent variable using item response theory (IRT), and IRT scores can s...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50108 |