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SUBMITTER: Liu CW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5978636 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Chen-Wei CW Wang Wen-Chung WC
Applied psychological measurement 20160820 7
Attitude surveys are widely used in the social sciences. It has been argued that the underlying response process to attitude items may be more aligned with the ideal-point (unfolding) process than with the cumulative (dominance) process, and therefore, unfolding item response theory (IRT) models are more appropriate than dominance IRT models for these surveys. Missing data and don't know (DK) responses are common in attitude surveys, and they may not be ignorable in the likelihood for parameter ...[more]