The Rasch Model, the Law of Comparative Judgment and Additive Conjoint Measurement
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 42 (4) , 631-634
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02295985
Abstract
Relationships between the Rasch model and both the law of comparative judgment and additive conjoint measurement are discussed. The distance between the ability of Person a and the difficult of Item i is, in the Rasch model, the baseline value corresponding to the probability that a will respond correctly to i, where this probability is interpreted as the area under a logistic curve (which is substantially equivalent to the normal curve) and is thus an application of the law of comparative judgment. Under certain assumptions, the Rasch model is also a special case of additive conjoint measurement and, properly reinterpreted, may be usefully applied in contexts other than individual differences.Keywords
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