A Simple Technique for Improving the Quality of Parameter Estimates in Learning Hierarchy Validation Studies
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 45 (2) , 269-271
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02294080
Abstract
Learning hierarchy research has been characterized by the use of ad hoc statistical procedures to determine the validity of postulated hierarchical connections. The two most substantial attempts to legitimize the procedure are due to White & Clark and Dayton & Macready, although both of these methods suffer from serious inadequacies. Data from a number of sources is analyzed using a restricted maximum likelihood estimation procedure and the results are compared with those obtained using the method suggested by Dayton and Macready. Improved estimates are evidenced by an increase in the computed value of the log likelihood function.Keywords
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