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Wage reactions to regional and national unemployment

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This paper analyses the entire wage effects of unemployment for an especially long observation period. In a three‐step approach, the wage reaction at the national level (wage‐setting curve or aggregate wage equation) is added to the reaction at the regional level (wage curve). Spatial models with instrumental variables are used.
Uwe Blien, Jan Mutl, Phan thi Hong Van, Katja Wolf   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Impact of Item Parameter Drift for Item Response Theory Models with Mixture Distributions

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
This study investigates the impact of item parameter drift (IPD) on parameter and ability estimation when the underlying measurement model fits a mixture distribution, thereby violating the item invariance property of unidimensional item response theory (
Yoon Soo ePark, Young-Sun eLee, Kuan eXing   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proactive Personality Measurement Using Item Response Theory and Social Media Text Mining

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This prospective study was designed to propose a novel method of assessing proactive personality by combining text mining technology and Item Response Theory (IRT) to measure proactive personality more efficiently.
Gancheng Zhu, Yuci Zhou, Yuci Zhou, Fengfeng Zhou, Min Wu, Xiangping Zhan, Yingdong Si, Peng Wang, Jun Wang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Item Response Models for Forced-Choice Questionnaires: A Common Framework [PDF]

, 2016
In forced-choice questionnaires, respondents have to make choices between two or more items presented at the same time. Several IRT models have been developed to link respondent choices to underlying psychological attributes, including the recent MUPP ...
Brown, Anna
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Estimations and results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Item Response Theory (IRT) in Study 1 data.

, 2022
Estimations and results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Item Response Theory (IRT) in Study 1 data.
Rejane Augusta de Oliveira Figueiredo (8762565), Ester van der Borgh-Sleddens (13200036), Eva Roos (5479976), Jessica Gubbels (9379893), Mona Bjelland (6521354), Carola Ray (5479973)   +5 more
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AI Companions and Loneliness: Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Synthetic Mindfulness and Exploring Its Role in Alleviating Loneliness

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rise of AI companions has sparked interest in their potential to alleviate the growing social problem of loneliness, yet evidence of their effectiveness remains unsettled. Drawing on social surrogacy theory with a theories‐in‐use approach, this research introduces synthetic mindfulness, defined as consumers' judgment of an AI companion's ...
Varqa Shamsi Bahar, Artyom Golossenko, Sumin Kim, Matti Jaakkola   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychometric properties of the formative assessment test for the statistics course

Inovasi Kurikulum
This study is motivated by the importance of formative assessment in enhancing students’ understanding and engagement in Psychological Statistics learning, as well as the limited availability of psychometrically sound instruments.
Helli Ihsan, Wardani Rahayu, Riyan Arthur   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Computerized Adaptive Testing with R: Recent Updates of the Package catR

Journal of Statistical Software, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to list the recent updates of the R package catR. This package allows for generating response patterns under a computerized adaptive testing (CAT) framework with underlying item response theory (IRT) models.
David Magis, Juan Ramon Barrada
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Challenges to Attaining the SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and Future Projections: The Criticality of Types of Corruption, Human Rights, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Selected Asian Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By the mid‐21st century, the global economic system had not yet fully solved the problem of hunger. Therefore, achieving SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is crucial. This study therefore aims to examine the factors that may lead to hunger in seven selected Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh ...
Ali Çelik, Ahmet Köstekçi, Ertuğrul Buğra Orhan, Abdunnur Yıldız   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian Item Response Modeling in R with brms and Stan

Journal of Statistical Software, 2021
Item response theory (IRT) is widely applied in the human sciences to model persons' responses on a set of items measuring one or more latent constructs.
Paul-Christian Bürkner
doaj   +1 more source