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Local Independence

Local Independence is an assumption in latent variable and item response theory models that specifies that observed item responses are conditionally independent of one another given the value(s) of the underlying latent variable(s), so that all associations among items are fully explained by those latent traits.

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Latent Variables in Psychology and the Social Sciences

Kenneth A. Bollen · Annual Review of Psychology · 2002 · 1.1K citations

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Effects of Local Item Dependence on the Fit and Equating Performance of the Three-Parameter Logistic Model

Wendy M. Yen · Applied Psychological Measurement · 1984 · 795 citations · Full text

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Scaling Performance Assessments: Strategies for Managing Local Item Dependence

Wendy M. Yen · Journal of Educational Measurement · 1993 · 735 citations

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Critical Values for Yen’s <i>Q</i> <sub>3</sub> : Identification of Local Dependence in the Rasch Model Using Residual Correlations

Karl Bang Christensen, Guido Makransky, Mike Horton · Applied Psychological Measurement · 2016 · 700 citations · Full text

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A New Item Response Theory Modeling Approach with Applications to Unidimensionality Assessment and Ability Estimation

William Stout · Psychometrika · 1990 · 384 citations

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    Brian Habing

    University of South Carolina, United States

    4 publications · 282 citations

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    Edward H. Ip

    Wake Forest University, United States

    3 publications · 169 citations

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    Mark Wilson

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    3 publications · 157 citations

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  4. DA
    David Andrich

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    3 publications · 297 citations

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    Daniel L. Oberski

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    3 publications · 134 citations

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  1. Educational Testing Service

    Princeton, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    295 citations

  2. Tilburg University

    Tilburg, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    587 citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    223 citations

  4. Ball State University

    Muncie, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    37 citations

  5. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    790 citations

  6. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    399 citations

  7. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    219 citations

  8. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    1.2K citations

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  1. Applied Psychological Measurement

    16 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. Journal of Educational Measurement

    8 publications · 952 citations

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  3. The Annals of Statistics

    7 publications · 366 citations

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  4. Psychometrika

    7 publications · 629 citations

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  5. Journal of Multivariate Analysis

    6 publications · 123 citations

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