Psychometric Theory

✍ Scribed by Jum Nunnally, Ira Bernstein

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 784
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The classic text is Psychometric Theory. Like the previous edition, this text is designed as a comprehensive text in measurement for researchers and for use in graduate courses in psychology, education and areas of business such as management and marketing. It is intended to consider the broad measurement problems that arise in these areas and is written for a reader who needs only a basic background in statistics to comprehend the material. It also combines classical procedures that explain variance with modern inferential procedures.

✦ Table of Contents

PSYCHOMETRIC THEORY, 3rd ed.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. INTRODUCTION
PART II. STATISTICALFOUNDATIONS
2. TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO SCALING
3. VALIDITY
4. ELEMENTS OF STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION AND ESTIMATION
5. LINEAR COMBINATIONS, PARTIAL CORRELATION, MULTIPLE CORRELATION, AND MULTIPLE REGRESSION
PART III. CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI-ITEM MEASURES
6. THE THEORY OF MEASUREMENT ERROR
7. THE ASSESSMENT OF RELIABILITY
8. CONSTRUCTION OF CONVENTIONAL TESTS
9. SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN CLASSICAL TEST THEORY
10. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TEST THEORY
PART IV. FACTOR ANALYSIS
11. FACTOR ANALYSIS I: THE GENERAL MODEL AND VARIANCE CONDENSATION
12. EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS II: ROTATION AND OTHER TOPICS
13. CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS
PART V. ADDITIONAL STATISTICAL MODELS, CONCEPTS, AND ISSUES
14. PROFILE ANALYSIS, DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS, AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING
15. THE ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA, BINARY CLASSIFICATION, AND ALTERNATIVES TO GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS
REFERENCES
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX