Sentence examples for by testing the fit from inspiring English sources

New questionnaires are calibrated by testing the fit between their indications and the predictions of the Rasch model and assigning difficulty levels to each item accordingly.

We investigated whether our new test can provide fair measurement and constitutes a valid change measure by testing the fit of one uniform Rasch model both on data from different groups of test takers (e.g., female and male students) and on pre- and posttest data (see, e.g., Bond and Fox, 2007; Hambleton and Jones, 1993; Lord, 1980).

Finally, by testing the fit of ESEMs with a varying number of factors, it was determined that at least 11 factors were necessary to achieve acceptable overall model fit.

A posteriori contrasts were carried out by aggregating factor levels together and by testing the fit of the simplified model using an LRT (Crawley 2007).

This was accomplished by testing the fit of a number of potential models of the relation between self-esteem, dissociation and the varieties of inner speech using structural equation modelling.

This model was validated by testing the fit between the predicted abundance from the model and the total tick abundance measured at our study sites, using a Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

It involves formal rigorous psychometric testing of a scale against a mathematical measurement model by testing the scale's fit to the Rasch model [ 17, 25, 26].

The number of latent classes is determined by testing the goodness of fit of models with N latent classes using the Vuong-Lo-Mendell-Rubin likelihood ratio test and goodness of indices such as the Akaike Information Criterion, the Bayesian Information Criterion and Entropy.

Individual activation maps were recalculated by testing the goodness-of-fit of this convolution with the blood oxygen level-dependent time series that used the ratio of the sum of squares of deviations from the mean intensity value due to the model (fitted time series) divided by the sum of squares due to the residuals (original time series minus model time series).

The significance of variance components T, U, V, A and C (as above) was assessed by testing the deterioration in model fit after each component was dropped from the full model.

We examined the structural validity of OKS by conducting CFA that tested the fit of the one-factor and two-factor models of OKS to the data, using LISREL V.8.80 software.