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... (35) which is the Bradley–Terry–Luce model discussed later. At the end of the chapter, we discuss how the Rasch model can be fit as a model of quasi-symmetry. PSYCHOMETRIC FRAMEWORK A latent continuum is often assumed to govern the ...
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A further messy situation is when we have low communalities for some observed variables, suggesting that the current factor analysis solution does not account for an acceptable amount of the variance of those variables.
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