Title
Bayesian estimation of multidimensional polytomous item response theory models with Q-matrices using Stan
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
da Silva M.A.
Liu R.
Huggins-Manley A.C.
University of São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Abstract
The Q-matrix is commonly used in diagnostic classification models and has recently been incorporated into the multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models to add information about the relationship between items and dimensions of the latent trait. The reformulation of the MIRT models with Q-matrix (MIRT-Q) has presented to improve the precision of the parameters of these models and to provide a simple and intuitive method for users to define the item-trait relationship. This paper aims to explore the incorporation of the Q-matrix in the formulation of MIRT models for polytomous item responses. Specifically, we introduce the incorporation of the Q-matrix into two of the polytomous MIRT models most known and used: the multidimensional graded response (MGR) model, hereinafter called MGR-Q, and the multidimensional generalized partial credit (MGPC) model, hereinafter called MGPC-Q. We provide readers the code of the MGR-Q and MGPC-Q models in Stan, a Bayesian estimation software, and we conduct a simulation study in order to evaluate the parameter recovery of the estimation method. To illustrate the use of both models in practice, we fit them to an operational dataset from 2400 individuals on 13 items and demonstrate the estimation of MGR-Q and MGPC-Q using the Stan program.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología Matemáticas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85115157505
Source
Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
ISSN of the container
03610918
Sponsor(s)
This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior–Brasil (CAPES)–Finance Code 001. The fourth author was partially supported by the Brazilian agency FAPESP (Grant et al. 2017/15452-5). The research was conducted through use of the computing resources of the Center of Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry (CeMEAI), financed by FAPESP.
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