Modern Psychometrics with R

Description

This textbook describes the broadening methodology spectrum of psychological measurement in order to meet the statistical needs of a modern psychologist. The way statistics is used, and maybe even perceived, in psychology has drastically changed over the last few years; computationally as well as methodologically. R has taken the field of psychology by storm, to the point that it can now safely be considered the lingua franca for statistical data analysis in psychology. The goal of this book is to give the reader a starting point when analyzing data using a particular method, including advanced versions, and to hopefully motivate him or her to delve deeper into additional literature on the method. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Classical Test Theory (Patrick Mair)....Pages 1-15 Factor Analysis (Patrick Mair)....Pages 17-61 Path Analysis and Structural Equation Models (Patrick Mair)....Pages 63-93 Item Response Theory (Patrick Mair)....Pages 95-159 Preference Modeling (Patrick Mair)....Pages 161-177 Principal Component Analysis and Extensions (Patrick Mair)....Pages 179-210 Correspondence Analysis (Patrick Mair)....Pages 211-230 Gifi Methods (Patrick Mair)....Pages 231-256 Multidimensional Scaling (Patrick Mair)....Pages 257-287 Biplots (Patrick Mair)....Pages 289-311 Networks (Patrick Mair)....Pages 313-334 Parametric Cluster Analysis and Mixture Regression (Patrick Mair)....Pages 335-364 Modeling Trajectories and Time Series (Patrick Mair)....Pages 365-407 Analysis of fMRI Data (Patrick Mair)....Pages 409-450 Back Matter ....Pages 451-458