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Reversed item bias: An integrative model. [PDF]

open access: yesPsychological Methods, 2013
In the recent methodological literature, various models have been proposed to account for the phenomenon that reversed items (defined as items for which respondents' scores have to be recoded in order to make the direction of keying consistent across all items) tend to lead to problematic responses.
Weijters, Bert   +2 more
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Quantity bias in comparison-shopping of multi-item baskets.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Comparison-shopping applications are widespread and have been the subject of considerable research and development. There has also been widespread recognition that people are predictably irrational when making shopping decisions. In this work, we combine
Ross Niswanger, Eric Walden
doaj   +4 more sources

Federated Recommendation with Explicitly Encoding Item Bias

open access: yesProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
With the development of federated learning techniques and the increased need for user privacy protection, the federated recommendation has become a new recommendation paradigm. However, most existing works focus on user-level federated recommendation, leaving platform-level federated recommendation largely unexplored.
Zhihao Wang 0002   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

BIAS Bulletin. The Newsletter of Brent Irish Advisory Service. 1987 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Newsletter of Brent Irish Advisory Service (BIAS), 1987.
Brent Irish Advisory Service   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

Bias and Equivalence in Cross-Cultural Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Bias and equivalence are key concepts in the methodology of cross-cultural studies. Bias is a generic term for any challenge of the comparability of cross-cultural data; bias leads to invalid conclusions.
Jia He   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The cross-cultural application of the social axioms survey in The South African police service

open access: yesSA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2008
The objectives of this study were to investigate the replicability, construct equivalence, item bias and reliability of the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) in the South African Police Service (SAPS). A cross-sectional survey design was used.
Adi Barnard   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mitigation of Popularity Bias in Recommendation Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In response to the quantity of information available on the Internet, many online service providers are attempting to customize their services and make content access more simple via recommender systems (RSs) to support users in discovering the products ...
Karboua, S.   +3 more
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An Investigation of Item Bias of English Test: The Case of 2016 Year Undergraduate Placement Exam in Turkey

open access: yesInternational Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
Thepurpose of this study is to determine whether English test items ofUndergraduate Placement Exam (UPE) in 2016 containdifferential item functioning (DIF) and differential bundle functioning (DBF)in terms of gender and school type and examine the ...
Rabia Akcan, Kübra Atalay Kabasakal
doaj   +1 more source

Is It Biased? Empirical Analysis of Various Phenomena That Affect Survey Results

open access: yesRevija za Sociologiju, 2021
It is often assumed that survey results reflect only the quality of the sample and the underlying measuring instruments used in the survey. However, various phenomena can affect the results, but these influences are often neglected when conducting ...
Luka Mandić, Ksenija Klasnić
doaj   +3 more sources

Probing for Bias: Comparing Populations Using Item Response Curves

open access: yesNumeracy, 2020
We introduce an approach for making a quantitative comparison of the item response curves (IRCs) of any two populations on a multiple-choice test instrument. In this study, we employ simulated and actual data. We apply our approach to a dataset of 12,187
Paul Walter   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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