New Developments in Psychometrics: Proceedings of the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society IMPS2001. Osaka, Japan, July 15–19, 2001

Front Matter....Pages ii-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Psychometric Engineering as Art: Variations on a Theme....Pages 3-18
Vectors and Matrices in Psychometrics with Special Emphasis on Generalized Inverse and Projection Matrices....Pages 19-32
Early Statistical Modelling of Latent Quantities: The History of Distance Measurement by Triangulation....Pages 33-44
Relationships among Various Kinds of Eigenvalue and Singular Value Decompositions....Pages 45-56
Power of χ 2 Goodness-of-fit Tests in Structural Equation Models: the Case of Non-Normal Data....Pages 57-68
The Respondent-Generated Intervals Approach to Sample Surveys: From Theory to Experiment....Pages 69-80
Student Profile Scoring for Formative Assessment....Pages 81-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Determinants of the Bias in Minimum Rank Factor Analysis (MRFA)....Pages 95-102
A Note on the Approximate Distributions of Fit Indexes for Misspecified Structural Equation Models....Pages 103-108
Longitudinal Study of Early Chinese Linguistics Growth: Revealing Sequential Relations of Linguistic Antecedents and Consequences....Pages 109-116
Some Cautionary Notes on Factor Loadings Estimated by Principal Component Analysis....Pages 117-122
Simultaneous Mean and Covariance Structure Analysis for Two Level Structural Equation Models on EQS....Pages 123-132
On Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Equation Models....Pages 133-140
Use of SEM Programs to Precisely Measure Scale Reliability....Pages 141-148
Estimating the Statistical Power in Small Samples by Empirical Distributions....Pages 149-156
Language Selection and Social Structure Transition in Ukraine from 1959 to 1989....Pages 157-164
Identifying Influential Observations for Loadings in Factor Analysis....Pages 165-172
Effects of Self-disclosure and Self-preoccupation on Depression....Pages 173-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Developments in Practical Nonparametric IRT Scale Analysis....Pages 183-190
Groups of Persons and Groups of Items in Nonparametric Item Response Theory....Pages 191-198
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Bias of Ability Estimates Using Warm’s Weighted Likelihood Estimator (WLE) in the Generalized Partial Credit Model (GPCM)....Pages 199-206
Item Selection in Polytomous CAT....Pages 207-214
Bayesian Checks on Outlying Response Times in Computerized Adaptive Testing....Pages 215-222
Construct Comparability in International Assessments: Comparability of English and French versions of TIMSS....Pages 223-230
Are the Japanese more depressed than the U.S. individuals? — An IRT-DIF study —....Pages 231-238
General and Specific Misfit of Nonparametric IRT-models....Pages 239-246
Application of IRT in Assessment of Chewing Ability....Pages 247-254
The Effects of the Temporal Structure and the Presentation Modality on English Listening Comprehension Test....Pages 255-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Estimating Testing Time Extension Ratios for Students with Disabilities from Item Cumulative Curves....Pages 265-272
The Effect of Clustered Objective Probability Scoring with Truncation (T-COPS) on Reliability....Pages 273-280
A Framework for Reusing Assessment Components....Pages 281-288
Investigating the Local Fit of Item-Score Vectors....Pages 289-296
Developing a Domain-Referenced Test given a Selection Ratio and a Cut-Off Score: An application of Item Response Theory....Pages 297-304
Investigating Cross-Cultural Differences in Crying Using Manifest Invariant Item Ordering....Pages 305-312
Bayesian Regressions for Cross-Validation: An Application....Pages 313-319
Validity and Truth....Pages 321-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
The Hierarchical Theory of Justification and Statistical Model Selection....Pages 331-338
Robust designs for longitudinal mixed effects models....Pages 339-346
On Conditional Distribution of Sliced Inverse Regression Model....Pages 347-354
Uniqueness Properties of Three-way Component Models with Offset Terms....Pages 355-362
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
An Assessment of Non-Monotonicity of Missing-Data Patterns for Incomplete Multivariate Data....Pages 363-369
A Unified Approach to Oblique Procrustes Problems....Pages 371-380
Automatic Generation of Intervention Effect Estimation Formula....Pages 381-388
An Investigation of Bayes Estimation Procedures for the Two-Parameter Logistic Model....Pages 389-396
Coping Strategies as Predictors of Psychological Distress among Employees in Japan....Pages 397-404
Estimating Mediated Effects with Survival Data....Pages 405-412
A Backward Induction Computational Procedure to Sequential Mastery Testing....Pages 413-420
Bayes and Generalized Bayes Tests for Tree Ordered Normal Means....Pages 421-431
Model Selection Criteria for Growth Curve Model with Hierachical Within-Individual Design Matrices....Pages 433-441
Pooling Component Means: Making Sense or Folly....Pages 443-449
Front Matter....Pages 451-451
Geometric Perspectives of Dual Scaling for Assessment of Information in Data....Pages 453-462
Factors which Influence Disclosure about Human Resources. An International Comparison Based on Disclosure Issued in Form 20-F and Annual Reports....Pages 463-470
An application of rotation in correspondence analysis....Pages 471-478
Complex Difference System Models for the Analysis of Asymmetry....Pages 479-486
A Distance Representation of the Quasi-Symmetry Model and Related Distance Models....Pages 487-494
Two-Mode Three-Way Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling with Different Directions of Asymmetry for Different Sources....Pages 495-502
A Latent Variable Model for Multidimensional Unfolding....Pages 503-510
Monte Carlo Simulation in Three-Way Unfolding: Assessing the Combined Effect of Sparseness and Variation of the Cell Frequencies....Pages 511-518
On Thurstone’s Model for Paired Comparisons and Ranking Data....Pages 519-526
Two kinds of space in psychophysics....Pages 527-534
Front Matter....Pages 451-451
A Variable Variance Model: A Critical Formulation of Fechner’s Problem....Pages 535-542
An Application of a Multiplicative Utility for Non-commutative Joint Receipts to Portfolio Choice....Pages 543-550
Multidimensional Scaling of Computer-generated Abstract Forms....Pages 551-558
Front Matter....Pages 559-559
Time Allocation Modeling for Weekend Travel in Tokyo, Using Combined Utility Maximization and Activity Choice Approaches....Pages 561-568
Cluster Instability as a Result of Data Input Order....Pages 569-576
A Connectionist Model of Phonological Working Memory....Pages 577-584
Brain Mapping Data: Classification, Principal Components and Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 585-592
Human Decision Making Model by Boolean Approach and Fuzzy Reasoning....Pages 593-600
A New Model of Rating Scale Method Considering Context Effects Based on Fuzzy Logic and its Application for a Psychological Response to the Acoustic Noise....Pages 601-608
Subtype Classification of Social Anxiety in Japanese Undergraduates....Pages 609-616
Another Aspect of Psychometrics; Survey Meta-data Description by XML....Pages 617-622
Some Alternative Clustering Methods for Mokken Scale Analysis....Pages 623-630
Knowledge-based Cascade-correlation: Varying the Size and Shape of Relevant Prior Knowledge....Pages 631-638
Front Matter....Pages 639-639
A PCA for interval-valued data based on midpoints and radii....Pages 641-648
Independent Component Analysis for Non-Normal Factor Analysis....Pages 649-656
Self-Organizing Method for Robust Blind Source Separation by β-Divergence....Pages 657-664
Examination of Independence in Independent Component Analysis....Pages 665-672
Neural Coding by Temporal and Spatial Correlations....Pages 673-680
Asymptotic Distributions and Confidence Intervals of Component Loading in Principal Component Analysis....Pages 681-688
Text Segmentation by Latent Semantic Indexing....Pages 689-696
Back Matter....Pages 697-702