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Activity Number: 307 - Challenges and Advances in Psychological and Behavioral Data Analysis
Type: Topic-Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 : 3:30 PM to 5:20 PM
Sponsor: Mental Health Statistics Section
Abstract #317391
Title: A Higher-Order Cognitive Diagnosis Model with Ordinal Attributes for Dichotomous Response Data
Author(s): Wenchao Ma*
Companies: The University of Alabama
Keywords: Cognitive diagnosis; regularization; higher-order; Lasso; IRT; CDM
Abstract:

Most existing cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) assume attributes are binary latent variables, which may be oversimplified in practice. This study introduces a higher-order CDM with ordinal attributes for dichotomous response data. The proposed model can either incorporate domain experts’ knowledge or learn from the data empirically by regularizing model parameters. A sequential item response model was employed for joint attribute distribution to accommodate the sequential mastery mechanism. The expectation-maximization algorithm was employed for model estimation, and a simulation study was conducted to assess the recovery of model parameters. A set of real data was also analyzed to assess the viability of the proposed model in practice.


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