TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schuur,Wijbrandt van
TI  - Ordinal item response theory: Mokken scale analysis 
T2  - Quantitative applications in the social sciences
SN  - 9781412988049 
U1  - 001.42 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - Sage Publications, Inc
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Research
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Guttman Scale Chapter 3. The Imperfect Cumulative Scale Chapter 4. Confirmation or Exploration Chapter 5. An Example of a Cumulative Scale: American Religious Beliefs Chapter 6. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Monotone Homogeneity Chapter 7. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Double Monotonicity Chapter 8. Cumulative Scaling with Polytomous Items Chapter 9. Remaining Issues REFERENCES Appendix: The null-distribution of the H-coefficient Appendix: Preventing capitalizing on chance Appendix: Calculation of Reliability
N2  - "Ordinal Item Response Theory is volume 169 in the SAGE Series "Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences" (QASS). The of Ordinal Item Response Theory is referred to throughout many other QASS titles and fills a gap between the more classical topics of undimensional scaling, test theory, principal component and factor analysis. In addition, this volume also discusses parametric item response theory and latent class analysis. This monograph is less technical than many books on the market and is best suited for an introductory course in social science measurement"--
ER  -